dawn
See also: Dawn
English edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from dawning. (If the noun rather than the verb is primary, the noun could directly continue dawing.) Compare daw (“to dawn”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɔːn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dɔn/
Audio (GA) (file) - (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /dɑn/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /doːn/
- Homophones: don, Don (accents with the cot-caught merger)
- Rhymes: -ɔːn
Verb edit
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, figurative) 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, figurative) 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, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
- when life awakes, and dawns at every line
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XLII, page 65:
- And love will last as pure and whole
As when he loved me here in Time,
And at the spiritual prime
Rewaken with the dawning soul.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
to begin to brighten with daylight
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to start to appear, to be realized
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Noun edit
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).
Antonyms edit
Hypernyms edit
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- crack of dawn
- dawn choir
- dawn chorus
- dawn horse
- dawn of a new day
- dawn of time
- dawn patrol
- dawn poppy
- 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 terms edit
Translations edit
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 also edit
See also edit
- (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)
References edit
- “dawn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “dawn”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Maltese edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
dawn
Middle English edit
Noun edit
dawn
- Alternative form of dan
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Brythonic *don, from Proto-Celtic *dānus (whence also Irish dán), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃nom (“gift”). Compare Latin dōnum.
Noun edit
dawn f (plural doniau)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
dawn
Alternative forms edit
Mutation edit
| 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. | |||