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单词 dawn
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dawnn.

Brit. /dɔːn/, U.S. /dɔn/
Etymology: Appears late in 16th cent., the earlier equivalents being dawing n., dawning n. Apparently < the verb-stem (see dawn v.); compare break in ‘break of day’ (quoted 1584). Old Norse had dagan, dögun dawn, < daga to dawn, í dagan, at dagan at dawn: but, notwithstanding the likeness of form, there is no evidence that this is the original of the English word.
1.
a. The first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise, or the time when it appears; the beginning of daylight; daybreak. high dawn, dawn appearing above a bank of clouds on the horizon; low dawn, dawn appearing on or close to the horizon.
ΘΠ
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]
aristc825
dawingc900
dayeOE
day-rimOE
day-redOE
mornOE
lightOE
lightingOE
dawning1297
day-rowa1300
grekinga1300
uprista1300
dayninga1325
uprisingc1330
sun arisingc1350
springc1380
springingc1380
day-springa1382
morrowingc1384
dayingc1400
daylighta1425
upspring1471
aurora1483
sky1515
orienta1522
breaking of the day1523
daybreak1530
day-peep1530
morrow dayc1530
peep of the morning1530
prick of the day?1533
morning1535
day-breaking1565
creek1567
sunup1572
breach of the day1579
break of day or morn1584
peep of day1587
uprise1594
dawna1616
day-dawn1616
peep of dawn1751
strike of day1790
skreigh1802
sunbreak1822
day-daw1823
screech1829
dayclean1835
sun dawn1835
first light1838
morning-red1843
piccaninny sun1846
piccaninny daylightc1860
gloaming1873
glooming1877
sparrow-fart1886
crack1887
sun-spring1900
piccaninny dawn1936
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. i. 271 Next day after dawne . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. ii. 209 Come away, it is almost cleere dawne . View more context for this quotation
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xviii. 498 With such dark black Clouds near the Horizon, that the first glimpse of the Dawn appeared 30 or 40 degrees high..it is a common saying among Sea-men..that a high dawn will have high winds, and a low dawn, small winds.
1778 R. Lowth Isaiah xxvi. 19 Thy dew is as the dew of the dawn.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Death of Old Year in Poems (new ed.) 155 He will not see the dawn of day.
1859 C. M. Yonge Cameos liii, in Monthly Packet Sept. 229 The assault had begun at early dawn.
b. An opalescent colour resembling that seen in the sky at dawn.
ΘΠ
the world > matter > colour > variegation > iridescence > [noun] > iridescent colour
opal1576
nacrine1852
dawn1894
1894 Daily News 11 Apr. 3/1 Palest pink and blue shot silk, called by the poetic name of ‘Dawn’, because it suggests the union of those colours in the early morning sky.
1927 Daily Express 21 Mar. 2 Colours include cedar, green, silver, new blue, dawn or bois de rose.
c. came the dawn: a cliché used to announce the break of day; hence figurative, used to indicate relief after a time of trouble, the dawning of understanding, etc.
Π
1927 P. G. Wodehouse Meet Mr. Mulliner v. 169 A benevolent glow irradiated the other's spectacles. ‘Came the Dawn!’ he murmured. ‘Came the Dawn.’
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. iii. v. 582 For her sake alone he..renounced wealth and fame. Love was his guiding star. Came the dawn. Yeogh!.. What do you think you are—a little hero from Hollywood?
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident iii. 29 As for Nick, you never saw such a ‘Came-the-dawn’ expression as he had on his face.
1967 ‘A. Garve’ Very Quiet Place i. iv. 60 It was fun staying up half the night..but, came the dawn, I was the one who had to..earn the rent.
1967 Guardian 18 Oct. 1Came the dawn.’ In the days of silent films this caption introduced the sequence where the young lovers were united after a night of tropical storm.
2. figurative. The beginning, commencement, rise, first gleam or appearance (of something compared to light); an incipient gleam (of anything).
ΘΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun]
ordeOE
thresholdeOE
frumthc950
anginOE
frumeOE
worthOE
beginninga1225
springc1225
springc1225
commencementc1250
ginninga1300
comsingc1325
entryc1330
aginning1340
alphac1384
incomea1400
formec1400
ingressc1420
birtha1425
principlea1449
comsementa1450
resultancec1450
inition1463
inceptiona1483
entering1526
originala1529
inchoation1530
opening1531
starting1541
principium1550
entrance1553
onset1561
rise1589
begin1590
ingate1591
overture1595
budding1601
initiationa1607
starting off1616
dawninga1631
dawn1633
impriminga1639
start1644
fall1647
initial1656
outset1664
outsettinga1698
going off1714
offsetting1782
offset1791
commence1794
aurora1806
incipiency1817
set-out1821
set-in1826
throw-off1828
go-off1830
outstart1844
start1857
incipience1864
oncome1865
kick-off1875
off-go1886
off1896
get-go1960
lift-off1967
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xii. xlvi. 170 So spring some dawns of joy, so sets the night of sorrow.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 196. ⁋2 From the dawn of manhood to its decline.
1767 Babler II. 100 If he possesses but a dawn of spirit.
1823 C. Lamb On Some of Old Actors (new ed.) in Elia 312 You could see the first dawn of an idea stealing slowly over his countenance.
1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe ii. §50. 69 From the earliest dawn of history to the present day.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
dawn animal n.
Π
1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man ii. 23 Eozoon Canadense..its name of ‘Dawn-animal’ having reference to its great antiquity and possible connection with the dawn of life on our planet.
dawn-animalcule n. (see quots.)
Π
1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) x. 189 The organism, Eozoön Canadense, or Dawn-animalcule of Canada.
dawn-chill n.
Π
1899 A. Werner Captain of Locusts 152 Holcroft shivered involuntarily in the dawn-chill.
dawn-cloud n.
Π
1901 R. Kipling Kim xv, in McClure's Mag. Oct. 567/2 Thence he vanished like a dawn-cloud on Jakko.
dawn-dew n.
Π
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 21 A dash of dawn-dew from the honeysuckle.
dawn-flush n.
Π
1906 Daily Chron. 30 June 4/6 A painter..saw a sunrise and put the dawn-flush into a picture.
dawn-goddess n.
Π
1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. 107 The Sun-god..and the dawn-goddess.
dawn-light n.
Π
1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 326 I oft had seen the dawnlight run As red wine, through the hills.
dawn-mist n.
Π
1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia xvi. 151 Across the broad landscape the dawn-mist lies in heavy, floating wreaths.
dawn-streak n.
Π
1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 221 The dawn-streaks of a new day.
dawn-wind n.
Π
1887 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1888) 35 The dawn-wind, softly, slowly, Brought to burning eyelids sleep.
1916 E. Blunden Pastorals 35 And through green sprigs a little dawn-wind plains.
dawn-woman n.
Π
1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 190 The hardy steppe-bred Dawn-Woman of the early Solutrean.
b.
dawn-illumined adj.
Π
1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xi, in Prometheus Unbound 215 As on a dawn-illumined mountain.
dawn-lit adj.
Π
1906 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 2/3 Rare and transparent as the dawn-lit dew.
1912 R. Brooke Grantchester in Poetry Rev. Nov. 507 Still in the dawnlit waters cool His ghostly Lordship swims his pool.
dawn-tinted adj.
Π
1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 47 Dawn-tinted deluges of fire.
c.
dawnward adv.
Π
1881 W. Wilkins Songs of Study 44 In joyful praises dawnward rolled.
C2.
dawn chorus n. the early-morning bird song.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > song > time of or defined by time
matins1645
vesper1678
song period1884
dawn chorus1927
1927 E. Grey Charm of Birds i. 8 [The robin's song is worth attention..and, though he may not open the Great Chorus at Dawn in May, he is the last to cease in the evening.]
1927 E. Grey Charm of Birds iv. 70 In May..the great Dawn Chorus is at its fullest and best.
1966 Guardian 23 Mar. 3/2 The dawn chorus project which we carried out last spring produced the interesting result that skylarks apparently don't like singing in the rain.
1969 ‘G. Black’ Cold Jungle xi. 160 The birds ought to be busy on their dawn chorus out in the Hebrides, with a new day practically settled in.
dawn raid n. Stock Market slang a swift operation effected early in trading whereby a stockbroker obtains for his client a markedly increased shareholding in a company (frequently preparatory to a take-over) by clandestine buying from other substantial shareholders.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > disreputable
poison pill1653
rig1826
cornering1841
wash-sale1848
washing1849
market-rigging1851
corner1853
watering1868
wreck1876
manipulation1888
wash1891
market mongering1901
matched orders1903
grey market1933
bond washing1937
warehousing1971
bed-and-breakfasting1974
dawn raid1980
1980 Times 28 May 17/6Dawn raids’, in which a stock-market raider suddenly buys a substantial stake in a company and possibly denies non-professional shareholders the opportunity to sell at a price above that in the market, were causing a ‘great deal of anxiety’.
1980 Times 22 July 17 De Beers went into the market on the morning of February 12 and bought another 11·6 per cent in a ‘dawn raid’.
1981 Bookseller 21 Feb. 568/3 Following his ‘dawn raid’ last July, which gained him 29·4 per cent of BPC, Robert Maxwell..clearly plans to secure and consolidate his control of the group.

Draft additions December 2016

dawn patrol n. (a) Military a patrol sent out at dawn; (b) Surfing an early morning surfing session.
ΚΠ
1905 Jrnl. United Service Inst. India Apr. 335 Patrolling by mounted men should of course go on throughout the day, but the dusk and dawn patrols should always go out at the above hours.
1975 Surfer Feb. 56 Dawn patrol: it's about 5:30 and very, very quiet except for outside you can hear the rumble on the reef.
1994 T. Clancy Debt of Honor xiv. 240 Captain Sanchez watched the dawn patrol—a term beloved of all fighter pilots—shoot off the cats to establish an outer Combat Air Patrol.
2002 Adrenalin No. 13. 78 I was carbo-loading after a blissful dawn patrol where I had scored crisp, clean, shoulder-high waves.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

dawnv.

Brit. /dɔːn/, U.S. /dɔn/
Forms: Also 1500s daune, dawne.
Etymology: Known only from end of 15th cent., since which it has displaced the earlier verb daw v.1 Apparently deduced < dawning n. Compare also dayn v.
I. To become bright, as at dawn.
1.
a. intransitive. To begin to grow daylight: said of the day, morning, light; also simply with it.
ΘΠ
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > become daylight
lightOE
dawc1200
dayc1275
shinec1384
dawn1499
break1535
unnight1594
dayn?c1600
1499 Promptorium Parvulorum (Pynson) sig. ev/2 Dawnyn or dayen [c1440 dawyn], auroro.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxviii. 1 The Sabboth daye at even which dauneth the morowe after the Sabboth [ Wyclif bigynneth to schyne, Geneva & 1611 began to dawne].
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Pet. i. 19 Vntill the daye dawne.
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Giii v To dawne [printed dawed in all editions], aiourner.
1611 Bible (King James) Matt. xxviii. 1 In the ende of the Sabbath, as it began to dawne towards the first day of the weeke. View more context for this quotation
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 142. ⁋5 Before the Light this Morning dawned upon the Earth.
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 23 As soon as ever the Morning dawn'd.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxi. 150 Day at length dawned and gradually brightened.
b. transferred. To begin to shine, as the sun or any luminary.
ΘΠ
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > begin to shine
dawn1702
1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane v. i. 2017 Women, like Summer Storms are Cloudy..But strait the Sun of Beauty dawns abroad.
1811 R. Heber in Christian Observer Nov. 697 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Margaret v Look down, and let your blue eyes dawn Upon me thro' the jasmine-leaves.
2. figurative. To begin to develop, expand, or brighten, like the daylight at dawn.
ΘΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > begin [verb (intransitive)]
beginc1000
comsea1225
gin?c1225
becomsea1375
commencec1380
to take beginninga1400
enterc1425
to start up1568
initiatea1618
inchoate1654
dawn1716
to take in1845
to take up1846
to set in1848
1716 A. Pope Epist. Jervas in J. Dryden tr. C. A. du Fresnoy Art of Painting (ed. 2) sig. A6 Where Life awakes, and dawns at every Line.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 412 In the year 1685 his fame..was only dawning.
1854 C. M. Yonge Cameos xxxi, in Monthly Packet Nov. 334 When prosperity dawned on the elder brother.
3.
a. To begin to brighten, with or as with the light of dawn.
ΘΠ
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > become daylight > be brightened by or as by the light of dawn
adawc1425
lightenc1450
dawn1648
1648 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple (ed. 2) 55 When the dark world dawn'd into Christian day.
1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 390 Zanchius..became such a light..that many parts in Christendome dawned with the luster of his writings.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Œnone (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 120 I waited underneath the dawning hills.
b. transferred. To begin to appear, become visible.
ΘΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible
ariseOE
to come in (also to, on, etc.) placec1225
'peara1382
appear1382
kithea1400
to show out?a1425
muster?1435
to come forthc1449
to look outa1470
apparish1483
to show forth1487
come1531
to come out?1548
peer1568
to look through1573
glimpse1596
loom1605
rise1615
emicate1657
emike1657
present1664
opena1691
emerge1700
dawn1744
to come down the pike1812
to open out1813
to crop out1849
unmask1858
to come through1868
to show up1879
to come (etc.) out of thin air1932
surface1961
1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 146 I see them dawn! I see the radiant visions, where they rise.
1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms iii. 307 Its porch and roof of roses dawn Through arching trees.
4. figurative. Of ideas, facts, etc.: To begin to become evident to the mind; to begin to be understood, felt, or perceived. Const. on, upon.
ΘΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > be intelligible [verb (intransitive)] > become
dawn1852
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (U.K. ed.) xv. 129 The idea that they had either feelings or rights had never dawned upon her.
1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood ix. 137 It dawned on my recollection that I had heard Judy mention her Uncle.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 59 The distinction between ethics and politics has not yet dawned upon Plato's mind.
II. To bring to life.
5. transferred. To bring to life; to arouse or awake from a swoon, resuscitate; = daw v.1 3.
ΘΠ
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > wake or rouse [verb (transitive)]
wecchec897
aweccheeOE
wakenc1175
awake?c1225
upwakea1325
wakec1369
ruthec1400
daw1470
awaken1513
to stir up1526
dawn1530
to call up1548
unsleep1555
rouse1563
abraid1590
amove1591
arousea1616
dissleep1616
expergefy1623
start?1624
to rouse out1825
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [verb (transitive)] > restore to consciousness > from a faint or swoon
aweccheeOE
adawc1405
daw1470
dawn1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 507/2 I dawne or get life in one that is fallen in a swoune, je reuigore..I can nat dawne him.
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Hvjv Yf Alexander dawned a weake souldiour when he was almost frosen for colde.
1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries sig. k4 After he had dawned him to remembrance, by the helpe of vinager and colde water.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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