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Dawn

dɔːn

Dawn definitions

noun

Inflections:

dawn dawns

the first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise

"he set off at dawn"

Synonyms:
daybreak break of day crack of dawn sunrise first light daylight first thing in the morning early morning cockcrow
the beginning of a phenomenon or period of time, especially one considered favourable

"the dawn of civilization"

Synonyms:
beginning start birth inception conception origination genesis emergence advent coming appearance debut arrival dawning rise starting point origin launch institution inauguration opening initiation onset outset unfolding development infancy

verb

Inflections:

dawn dawned dawning dawns

(of a day) begin

"Thursday dawned bright and sunny"

Synonyms:
begin open break arrive emerge grow light lighten brighten
- come into existence
  
  "a new age was dawning in the Tory party"
become evident to the mind; be perceived or understood

"the awful truth was beginning to dawn on him"

Synonyms:
occur to come to come to mind spring to mind enter someone's mind/head come into someone's head/mind strike hit register with enter someone's consciousness flash across someone's mind pass through someone's mind cross someone's mind suggest itself