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The word morning originally referred to the sunrise. Morning precedes midday, afternoon, and night in the sequence of a day.

Morning is the part of the day usually reckoned from dawn to noon. The name (which comes from the Middle English word morwening) was formed from the analogy of evening using the word "morn" (in Middle English morwen), and originally meant the coming of the sunrise as evening meant the beginning of the close of the day. The Middle English morwen dropped over time and became morwe, then eventually morrow, which properly means "morning", but was soon used to refer to the following day (i.e., "tomorrow"), as in other Germanic languages -- English is unique in restricting the word to the newer usage.

Morning may also be used in a strictly personal sense, to refer to the period immediately following waking up, irrespective of the current time of day. In this sense, morning encompasses the (mostly menial) prerequisites for full productivity and life in public (i.e. cleaning, a morning meal—often breakfast, dressing, etc). The boundaries of such morning periods are by necessity idiosyncratic, but they are typically considered to have ended on reaching a state of full readiness for the day's productive activity. This modern permutation of morning is due largely to the worldwide spread of electricity, and the concomitant independence from natural light sources.^[1]

A morning newspaper is one on sale in the mornings (as opposed to an evening newspaper, on sale from about noon onwards). In practice (though this may vary according to country) this means that a morning newspaper is available in early editions from before midnight on the night before its cover date, further editions being printed and distributed during the night. Previews of tomorrow's newspapers are often a feature of late night news programmes, such as Newsnight in the United Kingdom.

Morning meals include breakfast, though logically this need not be in the morning, and are varied across cultures. Brunch is a late morning meal.

The ability of a person to wake up effectively in the morning may be influenced by a gene called "Period 3". This gene comes in two forms, a "short" and a "long" variant. It seems to affect the person's preference for mornings or evenings. People who carry the long variant were over-represented as morning people, while the ones carrying the short variant were evening preference people.^[1]

References

References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

Parts of a day Dawn–Twilight–Sunrise • Morning • Noon • Afternoon • Evening • Sunset–Twilight–Dusk • Night • Midnight Related articles: Blue hour · Terminator · Daytime · White nights

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Morning may refer to:

• Morning, a poem by William Browne
• Morning, a poem by Florence Earle Coates from Poems (1898).
• Morning, a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
• Morning, a poem by Sara Teasdale.

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The morning is a time that starts when the sun goes up and as a result darkness goes away.(because of the Sunrise) The morning is a time that ends when the sun reaches it's most high point in the heavens. But time the sun goes up varies from 6:00 am until 8:00 am this depends how earth is positioned in the solar system. A winter morning lasts shorter than a summer morning, depending on the exact position where the beginning and ending of a morning is registered with science instruments. Sometimes, the moon is visible too because it reflects the sunlight so the moon isn't a scientific light but a reflector.