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Tomorrow's medieval ancestor, now just lurking in toasts and wedding vows.
means The day following today, or sometimes just 'morning' — an old word for 'the next day' that survives mainly in set phrases.
from From Old English 'morgen,' meaning morning — the same root that gives us 'morning' itself. Over time 'morrow' split off to mean specifically the next day, while 'morning' kept the dawn sense. It thrived in Middle English ('on the morrow') before fading from everyday speech, surviving now mostly in archaic or ceremonial phrasing like 'good morrow' and 'on the morrow of their wedding.'
- origin
- Old English morgen, meaning morning
- peak usage
- shakespeare, chaucer, and nobody since
- today
- survives mainly in on the morrow
- vibe
- sounds medieval, means literally tomorrow