noun
morrow
MO-roh
noun
1
The day following today or a specified day; the next day.
"They agreed to meet again on the morrow."
"On the morrow, the army would march at dawn."
2
Morning (an older, poetic use).
"She rose early in the morrow light."
How to Use Morrow
Learner’s notesIn plain English"The morrow" is an old-fashioned or literary way of saying "tomorrow" or "the next day."
When to use it
Mostly literary, poetic, or archaic today — rare in ordinary modern speech.
Common pairings
on the morrow
the morrow of
Word Forms
morrowed past tense, morrows plural, morrows singular
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Etymology
From Middle English morwe, from Old English morgen ("morning"); a doublet of "morn" and related to Dutch and German morgen.