mornings

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of morning.

   Winter mornings in the valley are shrouded in fog until noon.

   The quiet mornings at the retreat gave the writers time to think.

   Note

   A regular plural, made with a plain -s. The same spelling also serves as the "every morning" adverb. Before another noun, English keeps the singular, so it is morning coffee and never mornings coffee, even when many mornings are meant. The plural carries every sense of the singular, including the figurative "early part of anything."

2. 2
   adverb

   On every morning; regularly during the morning hours rather than at other times of day.

   The old man fished mornings and mended his nets in the evening.

   I take the early train mornings to beat the worst of the traffic.

   Note

   A plural noun doing an adverb's work, with no preposition in front of it. In "we are closed mornings," the plural is what signals habit. Closed in the morning can describe a single day, but closed mornings means every day as a rule. It cannot be compared, because nothing happens more mornings than something else. It patterns naturally with times like evenings and nights.

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