dawn
See also: Dawn
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Back-formation from dawning. (If the noun rather than the verb is primary, the noun could directly continue dawing.) Compare daw (“to dawn”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɔːn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dɔn/
Audio (GA) (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /doːn/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /dɑn/
- Homophones: don, Don (accents with the cot-caught merger)
- Rhymes: -ɔːn
- Rhymes: -ɒn
VerbEdit
dawn (third-person singular simple present dawns, present participle dawning, simple past and past participle dawned)
- (intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight.
- A new day dawns.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew xxviii:1:
- 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.
- (intransitive) To start to appear or be realized.
- I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- 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.
- (intransitive) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- in dawning youth
- 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, John Dryden, transl., De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
- when life awakes, and dawns at every line
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to begin to brighten with daylight
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to start to appear, to be realized
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NounEdit
dawn (countable and uncountable, plural dawns)
- (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
- (countable) The rising of the sun.
- Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise
- (uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
- Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise, sunup
- She rose before dawn to meet the train.
- (uncountable) The earliest phase of something.
- 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- 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).
- the dawn of civilization
AntonymsEdit
HypernymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- crack of dawn
- dawn choir
- dawn chorus
- dawn of a new day
- dawn of time
- dawn patrol
- dawn prayer
- dawn raid
- dawn redwood
- dawn to dusk
- dawn upon
- false dawn
- from dawn to dusk
- from dusk to dawn
- 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
- the darkest hour is always just before the dawn
- the darkest hour is just before the dawn
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
morning twilight period
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rising of the sun
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time
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beginning
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See alsoEdit
See alsoEdit
- (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)
ReferencesEdit
- dawn at OneLook Dictionary Search
- dawn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
AnagramsEdit
MalteseEdit
PronunciationEdit
DeterminerEdit
dawn pl
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
dawn
- Alternative form of dan
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Brythonic *don, from Proto-Celtic *dānus (whence also Irish dán), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃nom (“gift”). Compare Latin dōnum.
NounEdit
dawn f (plural doniau)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
dawn
Alternative formsEdit
MutationEdit
| Welsh mutation | |||
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| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| dawn | ddawn | nawn | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||