morn /mɔː r n/ N‑SING Morn means the same as morning. [LITERARY ] □ …one cold February morn.
morn|ing ◆◆◆ /mɔː r n I ŋ/ (mornings )
1 N‑VAR The morning is the part of each day between the time that people usually wake up and 12 o'clock noon or lunchtime. □ During the morning your guide will take you around the city. □ On Sunday morning Bill was woken by the telephone. □ He read about it in his morning paper.
2 N‑SING If you refer to a particular time in the morning , you mean a time between 12 o'clock midnight and 12 o'clock noon. □ I often stayed up until two or three in the morning.
3 PHRASE If you say that something will happen in the morning , you mean that it will happen during the morning of the following day. □ I'll fly it to London in the morning.
4 PHRASE If you say that something happens morning, noon and night , you mean that it happens all the time. □ You get fit by playing the game, day in, day out, morning, noon and night.
mo rning-a fter pill (morning-after pills ) N‑COUNT The morning-after pill is a pill that a woman can take some hours after having sex to prevent herself from becoming pregnant.
mo rn|ing dress N‑UNCOUNT Morning dress is a suit that is worn by men for very formal occasions such as weddings. It consists of a grey or black coat that is longer at the back than the front, grey trousers, a white shirt, a grey tie, and often a top hat.
mo rn|ing room (morning rooms ) also morning-room N‑COUNT In some large, old houses, the morning room is a living room which gets the sun in the morning. [OLD-FASHIONED ]
mo rn|ing sick|ness N‑UNCOUNT Morning sickness is a feeling of sickness that some women have, often in the morning, when they are pregnant.
mo rn|ing sta r N‑SING The morning star is the planet Venus, which can be seen shining in the sky just after the sun rises.
Mo|roc|can /mərɒ kən/ (Moroccans )
1 ADJ Moroccan means belonging or relating to Morocco or to its people or culture.
2 N‑COUNT A Moroccan is a person who comes from Morocco.
mor|on /mɔː rɒn/ (morons ) N‑COUNT If you refer to someone as a moron , you think that they are very stupid. [OFFENSIVE , DISAPPROVAL ] □ I used to think that Gordon was a moron.
mo|ron|ic /mɔːrɒ n I k/ ADJ If you say that a person or their behaviour is moronic , you think that they are very stupid. [OFFENSIVE , DISAPPROVAL ] □ It was wanton, moronic vandalism.
mo|rose /məroʊ s/ ADJ Someone who is morose is miserable, bad-tempered, and not willing to talk very much to other people. □ She was morose, pale, and reticent. ● mo|rose|ly ADV [usu ADV with v] □ One elderly man sat morosely at the bar.
morph /mɔː r f/ (morphs , morphing , morphed ) VERB If one thing morphs into another thing, especially something very different, the first thing changes into the second. [INFORMAL ] □ [V + into ] Mild-mannered Stanley morphs into a confident, grinning hero.
mor|pheme /mɔː r fiːm/ (morphemes ) N‑COUNT A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language. The words 'the', 'in', and 'girl' consist of one morpheme. The word 'girls' consists of two morphemes: 'girl' and 's'.
mor|phine /mɔː r fiːn/ N‑UNCOUNT Morphine is a drug used to relieve pain.
morph|ing /mɔː r f I ŋ/ N‑UNCOUNT Morphing is a technique which involves using a computer to make an image on film or television appear to change shape or change into something else.
mor|phol|ogy /mɔː r fɒ lədʒi/ N‑UNCOUNT The morphology of something is its form and structure. In linguistics, morphology refers to the way words are constructed with stems, prefixes, and suffixes. [TECHNICAL ]
mor|ris danc|er /mɒ r I s dɑːnsə r , - dæns-/ (morris dancers ) N‑COUNT A morris dancer is a person who takes part in morris dancing.
mor|ris danc|ing /mɒ r I s dɑːns I ŋ, - dæns-/ N‑UNCOUNT Morris dancing is a type of old English country dancing which is performed by people wearing special costumes.
mor|row /mɒ roʊ, [AM ] mɔː r-/
1 N‑SING [oft on the N ] The morrow means the next day or tomorrow. [LITERARY or OLD-FASHIONED ] □ We do depart for Wales on the morrow.
2 CONVENTION Good morrow means the same as 'good morning'. [LITERARY or OLD-FASHIONED ] □ Good morrow to you, my lord.
morse code /mɔː r s koʊ d/ also Morse code N‑UNCOUNT Morse code or morse is a code used for sending messages. It represents each letter of the alphabet using short and long sounds or flashes of light, which can be written down as dots and dashes.
mor|sel /mɔː r s ə l/ (morsels ) N‑COUNT A morsel is a very small amount of something, especially a very small piece of food. □ [+ of ] …a delicious little morsel of meat.
mor|tal /mɔː r t ə l/ (mortals )
1 ADJ If you refer to the fact that people are mortal , you mean that they have to die and cannot live for ever. □ A man is deliberately designed to be mortal. He grows, he ages, and he dies. ● mor|tal|ity /mɔː r tæ l I ti/ N‑UNCOUNT [usu poss N ] □ She has suddenly come face to face with her own mortality.
2 N‑COUNT You can describe someone as a mortal when you want to say that they are an ordinary person. □ Tickets seem unobtainable to the ordinary mortal.