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EtymologyEdit

Back-formation from dawning. (If the noun rather than the verb is primary, the noun could directly continue dawing.) Compare daw (to dawn).

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dawn (third-person singular simple present dawns, present participle dawning, simple past and past participle dawned)

  1. (intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight.
    A new day dawns.
  2. (intransitive) To start to appear or be realized.
    I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.
  3. (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

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NounEdit

dawn (countable and uncountable, plural dawns)

  1. (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
  2. (countable) The rising of the sun.
    Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise
  3. (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.
  4. (uncountable) The earliest phase of something.
    Synonyms: beginning, onset, start
    • 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

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ReferencesEdit

  • dawn at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • dawn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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DeterminerEdit

dawn pl

  1. plural of dan

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NounEdit

dawn

  1. 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)

  1. talent, natural gift, ability
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Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

dawn

  1. first-person plural future colloquial of dod
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MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
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.