say it: MAWR-ning
morning is a noun meaning "the time period between dawn and noon". It carries 4 recorded senses.
the time period between dawn and noon
“I spent the morning running errands”
a conventional expression of greeting or farewell
the first light of day
“we got up before dawn”
“they talked until morning”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for morning come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.