dawn
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dawnen, either a back-formation from dawnynge or a modification of dawen (“to dawn”) after it. The noun is from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: dawns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dawning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dawned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dawned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dawns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To begin to brighten with daylight.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A new day dawns.
In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene[…]to see the sepulchre.
gloss: To start to appear or become obvious.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.
The realization dawned on him that few would pass that final exam.
Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
gloss: To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: when life awakes, and dawns at every line
in dawning youth
Leave the time of war behind and let a time of peace dawn!
gloss: The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The rising of the sun.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity.
gloss: The time when the sun rises.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She rose before dawn to meet the train.
gloss: The earliest phase of something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The dawn of civilization didn't imply twilight of barbarity.
In the Edinburgh area, Leith and neighbouring Granton have only one terminal station where formerly there were four, and the long-established ferry from Granton to Burntisland, the history of which stretches back to the dawn of Scottish railways, is no more.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
Synonyms: ass crack of dawn
break
break of dawn
break of day
butt crack of dawn
cockcrow
crack of dawn
dawn
daybreak
daylight
dayspring
first light
lauds
solrise
sparrow-fart
sun
sunlight
sunrise
sunrising
sunup
Antonyms: dusk
Related words: dawning
crepuscular
early morning
postdawn
morning
midday
afternoon
evening
night
midnight
dawn chorus
Derived words: dawn on
crack of dawn
dawn ape
dawn choir
dawn chorus
dawn horse
dawnless
dawnlight
dawnlike
dawn man
dawn of a new day
dawn of time
dawn patrol
dawn poppy
dawn prayer
dawn raid
dawn redwood
dawn stone
dawn tetria
dawntime
dawn upon
dawny
false dawn
foredawn
handbags at dawn
it is always darkest before the dawn
it is always darkest just before the dawn
it is darkest before the dawn
it is darkest just before the dawn
new dawn
northern dawn
pistols at dawn
predawn
sundawn
the darkest hour is always just before the dawn
the darkest hour is just before the dawn
yesterdawn
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