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Definition of dawn in English: dawnnoun dɔːn 1The first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise. Example sentencesExamples - She wakes up in those dawns and rises with the sun.
- She pushed the horse faster, but didn't sit up until the first light of dawn rose over the horizon.
- The rundown colonial port buildings house tailors, coppersmiths and fishermen, who rise with the dawn and retire with the sun, for there's little electricity here.
- And then the dawn's early light suddenly appears to Ginger, clearing all those confusing dark clouds away.
- Because visual signals are difficult to perceive at dawn, it might be expected that females use vocal cues to signal their intentions.
- She rushed the hair out of her face with a shaky hand, glancing around nervously in the pale gray light of dawn.
- She slept soundly that day, and into the night, and did not rise until the next dawn.
- But it is a grand life; have you ever seen the sun set at sea or rise in the dawn?
- It was so beautiful, like the first light of a dawn in another world.
- I watched with dry, weary eyes as the pale light of dawn overwhelmed the amber glow of the Parisian night sky.
- At dawn's first light they reached the wrought iron gates of the palace, strangely ajar.
- Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.
- The others and I would waddle into the mines before sunrise, never seeing the first lights of dawn.
- The dawn was rising, all pinks and yellows spilling out on the trees, setting what snow remained ablaze in a curtain of white.
- When dawn rose they hunted the plentiful game and feasted on many goats, gazing at the smoke of the Cyclops.
- She woke up at the first light of the dawn and crept out to the study.
- Opening my eyes, she peers back at me, looking forlorn and nervous, as the pale light of dawn steals across the morning sky.
- That same day I rose with the dawn and went to visit their graves.
- When he reached the meeting place, the girl was sitting on the ground in the pale light of dawn, braiding her hair silently.
- All observations of mating behavior commenced at the beginning of this dawn period.
Synonyms daybreak, break of day, crack of dawn, sunrise, first light, daylight, first thing in the morning, early morning, cockcrow North American sunup literary dawning, peep of day, aurora, dayspring 2The beginning of a phenomenon or period of time, especially one considered favourable. Example sentencesExamples - Fight bravely and a new dawn will rise in this land.
- It's a new dawn in Carolina, although that could mean a period of adjustment.
- If we are correct, the Late Devonian wood problem was an almost inevitable result of evolutionary developments at the dawn of life.
- Historically, this period is the dawn of economic modernism and social modernity, especially in the hinterlands.
- Humans require new dawns, fresh starts, ends of eras.
- From the dawn of human civilization, super-powers have had to do all sorts of dirty things.
- Driving through a land which has been intensively farmed since the dawn of civilisation, we soon reached the Ghab, a rich agricultural valley which had once been marshland.
- Nickel has been used in alloys that date back to the dawn of civilization.
- From a long-term point of view, therefore, the tumultuous changes in Italian religion at the end of the early modern period mark not the dawn of a new era but merely a caesura.
- The industrial revolution arrived in Japan with the new dawn of the Meiji period.
- Information has occupied an important role in all societies since the dawn of civilization.
- Today heralds the dawn of a new beginning for them both.
- In the end, when the family travels away from their ancestral home, it signifies the birth of a new dawn, the beginning of an aspiration.
- The Arts and Crafts Festival will bring to its patrons the traditional Indian crafts with a heritage going back to the dawn of civilisation.
- That revolutionary dawn proved less than auspicious after many Frenchmen died under the blade of the guillotine.
- The beginning of the 21st century is also the dawn of the first global society of states.
- The world has been going through a tumultuous period since the dawn of the 1990s, with no sign of relief in sight.
- Once upon a time, back at the dawn of the weblog phenomenon, link logs didn't happen.
- God is revealing a powerful message to us all that we must not give up in times of darkness, because the dawn of a new beginning is just around the corner.
- It will take a lot of effort but it will be the beginning of a new dawn for the whole Middle East.
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 dɔːn [no object]1(of a day) begin. with complement Thursday dawned bright and sunny Example sentencesExamples - The second day dawned bright and hot, and would continue to get hotter, with a nice breeze at times.
- Guru Hargobind would rise long before the day dawned and after his bath in the holy tank, would go into meditation.
- The next day dawned - if such a bright word could be used to describe its beginning - miserable and rainy.
- The Harvest Festival day dawned bright and cheerful in the sky.
- The day had dawned bright and hot by the time Caroline's mother left.
- The day dawned bright and sunny and the event was well attended by family, friends, local dignitaries and sponsors.
- The day of the wedding dawned bright and clear, almost like God was smiling His blessing on the union.
- Boxing Day had dawned bright and clear, and for many tourists a gentle swim or some lazing on the beach beckoned.
- As the next day dawned, it was time to check in not just a hoard of goodies, but a baggage full of happiness, and unchecked emotion.
- The next day dawned bright, but by evening clouds had settled in.
- Sure enough, the next day dawned bright and sunny, and everything that had been shrouded in darkness was revealed in all its glory.
- On a day such as this, one might have hoped that the day would dawn bright and early, bringing sunshine and crisp, cold, blue skies.
- The next day dawned late, and we set out across an inland sea - the giant frozen lake Kuttijarvi - so large we couldn't see other side.
- The day dawned brightly, the sun spreading over the blue grass and the seven forms hidden in it.
- The next day dawned bright and clear, and Anne woke to a steaming breakfast.
- The next day dawned bright, and Karya woke with the first kiss of sunbeams on her face.
- The chapel was over a hundred years old and the day dawned sunny and mild for them.
- I kept the doors and windows closed even after day had dawned.
- The day had dawned bright and cheery, and even now, a summer sun warmed up the blue sky.
- Wedding day dawned dull and gray, but by 3 pm was bright and sunny.
Synonyms begin, open, break, arrive, emerge, grow light, lighten, brighten - 1.1 Come into existence.
a new age was dawning in the Tory party Example sentencesExamples - Those farmers left and abandoned their turf banks so that prosperity and a new age would dawn for the province.
- From the darkness that is Enron, I see a new day dawning in energy in America.
- Intellectuals, and even Christians, hail a new age as if it had really dawned universally.
- They say that a new age is dawning upon the city, and that I am the engineer behind it all.
- This melancholy, down trodden land reeked of sadness and the gore that occurred and dawned because of it.
- Well a new age has dawned, and with it, brings a new of age rogues.
- Soon, Iridia knew war was unavoidable, and that a new Age had dawned.
- Nothing less would have seemed appropriate for the new age that had apparently just dawned.
- However, you get a real sense that the best days are now dawning for the Institute and - as a result - for the region that it is such a key part of.
- These works all suggested that a new era of international relations was dawning.
- Well, let's hope that a new day is dawning in this country.
- A new age was dawning, and I was riding the crest of it.
- Only in 2000 has a new day dawned for the Osaka branch, as the Kansai economy emerges from stagnation.
- A new age has dawned, and the Holy Spirit has been poured out in a new way.
- As the day of reckoning dawned, it was the grown-ups who were struggling with their emotions as the 50,000 students headed off.
- Clarinbridge have been there or thereabouts now for the past number of years and their day must surely dawn soon.
- The 1970s dawned and Alf was uncomfortable with the new age of the footballing superstar.
- As the twenty-first century dawned, issues of immigration policy would clearly remain on the national agenda.
- To be sure the threat to the Pattern has existed for the past couple of years, but I never thought the day would dawn when the outgoing committee was left with no alternative but to call it a day.
- A new age was dawning, claims LaFeber, not just an expansion of the old multinational system.
Synonyms begin, start, come into being, be born, come into existence, appear, arrive, come forth, emerge, erupt, burst out arise, rise, originate, break, unfold, develop, crop up, first see the light of day formal commence
2Become evident to the mind; be perceived or understood. the awful truth was beginning to dawn on him Example sentencesExamples - It didn't dawn on us what the reader was really asking.
- It was beginning to dawn on her mind that Billy was most probably part of this scheme of Jay's to meet him tonight.
- Realization seemed to dawn on Kaya's face after that sentence.
- Then it dawns on her he is suggesting that they should go and inspect a studio apartment he has found.
- Alucius was silent, watching the realization of what must have happened dawn on the boy.
- This is not to say that he appreciated this when the incident occurred, but it dawned on him soon after.
- The housemother looked blank for a moment, but then the wisdom of Mma Potokwani's suggestion dawned upon her and she smiled broadly.
- It will dawn on her that she will have to fix the photocopier herself.
- I notice the realization starting to dawn on the other two.
- Realization on what had happened seemed to dawn on him as he saw Ariel and the rest standing around him.
- A sort of sadness seemed to dawn on her face, but then she smiled again.
- It would eventually dawn on the excited passengers that they weren't on the road to Banna - they would soon find themselves in the bog.
- Slowly understanding began to dawn on his face and his expression softened into something like pity.
- Tan stared blankly for a moment, realization slowly dawning upon his weary mind.
- When did it dawn on you that this was a problem that needed to be tackled?
- It took about three seconds for understanding to dawn on him.
- Much of this has yet to dawn on Labour's backbenches and few would understand it even if spelled out for them.
- After the histrionics were well and truly over, the realisation dawned that something truly shocking had occurred.
- Travelling through London yesterday was peculiar; it didn't dawn on me that I would have to use the tube until my train from Brighton was approaching Victoria.
- It suddenly dawned on Juktis that over the centuries of her existence, the religion of her people may have been lost in the passage of time.
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
Origin Late 15th century (as a verb): back-formation from Middle English dawning. day from Old English: The ancient word day has a Germanic root which may have meant ‘to burn’, through association with the heat of summer. The working day came with increasing industrialization, in the early 19th century. This is the day you refer to if you call it a day, ‘decide to stop doing something’. In the mid 19th century, when working people had fewer holidays, the expression was to call it half a day. If something unusual is all in a day's work, it is taken in your stride, as part of your normal routine. Jonathan Swift's Polite Conversations, which mocked the clichés of 18th-century society, suggest that the phrase was in circulation even then. Daylight dawned in the early Middle Ages (LME dawn itself is closely related to ‘day’). It was always associated with seeing, and in the mid 18th century daylights appeared as a term for the eyes. This is not the meaning in to beat the living daylights out of someone, where ‘daylights’ are the vital organs, such as the heart, lungs, and liver (see light). The word ‘living’ is a later addition to the phrase, from the late 19th century. Days of wine and roses are times of pleasure, which will inevitably pass. The phrase comes from a line in a poem by the 19th-century poet Ernest Dowson: ‘They are not long, the days of wine and roses’.
Rhymes adorn, born, borne, bourn, Braun, brawn, corn, drawn, faun, fawn, forborne, forewarn, forlorn, freeborn, lawn, lorn, morn, mourn, newborn, Norn, outworn, pawn, prawn, Quorn, sawn, scorn, Sean, shorn, spawn, suborn, sworn, thorn, thrawn, torn, Vaughan, warn, withdrawn, worn, yawn Definition of dawn in US English: dawnnoun 1The first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise. the rose-pink light of dawn Example sentencesExamples - But it is a grand life; have you ever seen the sun set at sea or rise in the dawn?
- That same day I rose with the dawn and went to visit their graves.
- She wakes up in those dawns and rises with the sun.
- Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.
- She rushed the hair out of her face with a shaky hand, glancing around nervously in the pale gray light of dawn.
- I watched with dry, weary eyes as the pale light of dawn overwhelmed the amber glow of the Parisian night sky.
- When he reached the meeting place, the girl was sitting on the ground in the pale light of dawn, braiding her hair silently.
- And then the dawn's early light suddenly appears to Ginger, clearing all those confusing dark clouds away.
- All observations of mating behavior commenced at the beginning of this dawn period.
- The others and I would waddle into the mines before sunrise, never seeing the first lights of dawn.
- Because visual signals are difficult to perceive at dawn, it might be expected that females use vocal cues to signal their intentions.
- It was so beautiful, like the first light of a dawn in another world.
- The dawn was rising, all pinks and yellows spilling out on the trees, setting what snow remained ablaze in a curtain of white.
- Opening my eyes, she peers back at me, looking forlorn and nervous, as the pale light of dawn steals across the morning sky.
- At dawn's first light they reached the wrought iron gates of the palace, strangely ajar.
- She woke up at the first light of the dawn and crept out to the study.
- The rundown colonial port buildings house tailors, coppersmiths and fishermen, who rise with the dawn and retire with the sun, for there's little electricity here.
- She slept soundly that day, and into the night, and did not rise until the next dawn.
- When dawn rose they hunted the plentiful game and feasted on many goats, gazing at the smoke of the Cyclops.
- She pushed the horse faster, but didn't sit up until the first light of dawn rose over the horizon.
Synonyms daybreak, break of day, crack of dawn, sunrise, first light, daylight, first thing in the morning, early morning, cockcrow 2The beginning of a phenomenon or period of time, especially one considered favorable. Example sentencesExamples - The beginning of the 21st century is also the dawn of the first global society of states.
- It's a new dawn in Carolina, although that could mean a period of adjustment.
- The Arts and Crafts Festival will bring to its patrons the traditional Indian crafts with a heritage going back to the dawn of civilisation.
- Historically, this period is the dawn of economic modernism and social modernity, especially in the hinterlands.
- The industrial revolution arrived in Japan with the new dawn of the Meiji period.
- Nickel has been used in alloys that date back to the dawn of civilization.
- From a long-term point of view, therefore, the tumultuous changes in Italian religion at the end of the early modern period mark not the dawn of a new era but merely a caesura.
- Today heralds the dawn of a new beginning for them both.
- Fight bravely and a new dawn will rise in this land.
- Humans require new dawns, fresh starts, ends of eras.
- Once upon a time, back at the dawn of the weblog phenomenon, link logs didn't happen.
- In the end, when the family travels away from their ancestral home, it signifies the birth of a new dawn, the beginning of an aspiration.
- The world has been going through a tumultuous period since the dawn of the 1990s, with no sign of relief in sight.
- Information has occupied an important role in all societies since the dawn of civilization.
- That revolutionary dawn proved less than auspicious after many Frenchmen died under the blade of the guillotine.
- It will take a lot of effort but it will be the beginning of a new dawn for the whole Middle East.
- God is revealing a powerful message to us all that we must not give up in times of darkness, because the dawn of a new beginning is just around the corner.
- Driving through a land which has been intensively farmed since the dawn of civilisation, we soon reached the Ghab, a rich agricultural valley which had once been marshland.
- If we are correct, the Late Devonian wood problem was an almost inevitable result of evolutionary developments at the dawn of life.
- From the dawn of human civilization, super-powers have had to do all sorts of dirty things.
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 [no object]1(of a day) begin. with complement Thursday dawned bright and sunny Example sentencesExamples - The second day dawned bright and hot, and would continue to get hotter, with a nice breeze at times.
- The next day dawned - if such a bright word could be used to describe its beginning - miserable and rainy.
- The next day dawned late, and we set out across an inland sea - the giant frozen lake Kuttijarvi - so large we couldn't see other side.
- The day had dawned bright and cheery, and even now, a summer sun warmed up the blue sky.
- The day of the wedding dawned bright and clear, almost like God was smiling His blessing on the union.
- On a day such as this, one might have hoped that the day would dawn bright and early, bringing sunshine and crisp, cold, blue skies.
- The next day dawned bright, but by evening clouds had settled in.
- The day had dawned bright and hot by the time Caroline's mother left.
- I kept the doors and windows closed even after day had dawned.
- Wedding day dawned dull and gray, but by 3 pm was bright and sunny.
- Boxing Day had dawned bright and clear, and for many tourists a gentle swim or some lazing on the beach beckoned.
- The next day dawned bright and clear, and Anne woke to a steaming breakfast.
- The next day dawned bright, and Karya woke with the first kiss of sunbeams on her face.
- The Harvest Festival day dawned bright and cheerful in the sky.
- As the next day dawned, it was time to check in not just a hoard of goodies, but a baggage full of happiness, and unchecked emotion.
- The day dawned brightly, the sun spreading over the blue grass and the seven forms hidden in it.
- Guru Hargobind would rise long before the day dawned and after his bath in the holy tank, would go into meditation.
- Sure enough, the next day dawned bright and sunny, and everything that had been shrouded in darkness was revealed in all its glory.
- The day dawned bright and sunny and the event was well attended by family, friends, local dignitaries and sponsors.
- The chapel was over a hundred years old and the day dawned sunny and mild for them.
Synonyms begin, open, break, arrive, emerge, grow light, lighten, brighten - 1.1 Come into existence.
a new era of land-use policy was dawning Example sentencesExamples - Intellectuals, and even Christians, hail a new age as if it had really dawned universally.
- Well, let's hope that a new day is dawning in this country.
- A new age was dawning, and I was riding the crest of it.
- To be sure the threat to the Pattern has existed for the past couple of years, but I never thought the day would dawn when the outgoing committee was left with no alternative but to call it a day.
- They say that a new age is dawning upon the city, and that I am the engineer behind it all.
- From the darkness that is Enron, I see a new day dawning in energy in America.
- As the day of reckoning dawned, it was the grown-ups who were struggling with their emotions as the 50,000 students headed off.
- Soon, Iridia knew war was unavoidable, and that a new Age had dawned.
- Clarinbridge have been there or thereabouts now for the past number of years and their day must surely dawn soon.
- Well a new age has dawned, and with it, brings a new of age rogues.
- However, you get a real sense that the best days are now dawning for the Institute and - as a result - for the region that it is such a key part of.
- Only in 2000 has a new day dawned for the Osaka branch, as the Kansai economy emerges from stagnation.
- Nothing less would have seemed appropriate for the new age that had apparently just dawned.
- A new age has dawned, and the Holy Spirit has been poured out in a new way.
- The 1970s dawned and Alf was uncomfortable with the new age of the footballing superstar.
- These works all suggested that a new era of international relations was dawning.
- Those farmers left and abandoned their turf banks so that prosperity and a new age would dawn for the province.
- As the twenty-first century dawned, issues of immigration policy would clearly remain on the national agenda.
- This melancholy, down trodden land reeked of sadness and the gore that occurred and dawned because of it.
- A new age was dawning, claims LaFeber, not just an expansion of the old multinational system.
Synonyms begin, start, come into being, be born, come into existence, appear, arrive, come forth, emerge, erupt, burst out
2Become evident to the mind; be perceived or understood. the awful truth was beginning to dawn on him Example sentencesExamples - I notice the realization starting to dawn on the other two.
- Realization seemed to dawn on Kaya's face after that sentence.
- It will dawn on her that she will have to fix the photocopier herself.
- A sort of sadness seemed to dawn on her face, but then she smiled again.
- It would eventually dawn on the excited passengers that they weren't on the road to Banna - they would soon find themselves in the bog.
- It was beginning to dawn on her mind that Billy was most probably part of this scheme of Jay's to meet him tonight.
- Slowly understanding began to dawn on his face and his expression softened into something like pity.
- Tan stared blankly for a moment, realization slowly dawning upon his weary mind.
- Realization on what had happened seemed to dawn on him as he saw Ariel and the rest standing around him.
- When did it dawn on you that this was a problem that needed to be tackled?
- This is not to say that he appreciated this when the incident occurred, but it dawned on him soon after.
- The housemother looked blank for a moment, but then the wisdom of Mma Potokwani's suggestion dawned upon her and she smiled broadly.
- Then it dawns on her he is suggesting that they should go and inspect a studio apartment he has found.
- Travelling through London yesterday was peculiar; it didn't dawn on me that I would have to use the tube until my train from Brighton was approaching Victoria.
- It didn't dawn on us what the reader was really asking.
- It took about three seconds for understanding to dawn on him.
- Much of this has yet to dawn on Labour's backbenches and few would understand it even if spelled out for them.
- Alucius was silent, watching the realization of what must have happened dawn on the boy.
- It suddenly dawned on Juktis that over the centuries of her existence, the religion of her people may have been lost in the passage of time.
- After the histrionics were well and truly over, the realisation dawned that something truly shocking had occurred.
Synonyms occur to, come to, come to mind, spring to mind, enter someone's head, enter someone's mind, come into someone's head, come into someone's 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
Phrases day after day from dawn to dusk, they drove those loaded canoes Example sentencesExamples - Ironically, Terri thinks he's ‘the most boring person alive’ because he works from dawn to dusk, day in, day out.
- The refuge is open year-round from dawn to dusk and entrance is free.
- This public space remains open from dawn to dusk, lit by a glass roof.
- Himself and his wife, still living in relative poverty, they worked the land from dawn to dusk but refused to spend much of the proceeds on themselves.
- Ramadan, a month of fasting from dawn to dusk, occurs in early January.
- She would sit in this courtyard from dawn to dusk, taking in everything about it.
- Aspiring musicians can practice their finger work from dawn to dusk with activities throughout the day.
- Seventy years ago, almost 90 per cent of the working population did physical work from dawn to dusk and had what we would call a very healthy lifestyle.
- He walked from dawn to dusk, stopping only to refill his water pouch at nearby streams or to eat a quick lunch.
- Kids no longer have to till fields from dawn to dusk or toil in sooty factories.
- They practiced in his garage from dawn to dusk, but rarely ever made actual songs.
- Life is one unending grind from dawn to dusk, and dust to dust.
- Their smiles are ever ready and brilliant, which is such a pleasure when what you have become used to up north are scowls and frowns from dawn to dusk.
- If we slackened the pace for the rest of the year and didn't feel this pressing need to toil from dawn to dusk, we would be altogether calmer when our holidays came around.
- The Waite Arboretum is off Fullarton Road at Netherby and is open from dawn to dusk - seven days a week.
- The chickens at our sanctuary are outside from dawn to dusk, spending much of their time foraging for greens and insects.
- Beautiful gardens open from dawn to dusk and a collection of romantic paintings inside provide the perfect combination for a day's relaxation.
- In this program they painted from dawn to dusk, and Jesse said it was the best educational experience of his life.
- Palermo harbor was jammed with shipping and we maintained four or six ship patrols over the area from dawn to dusk, but the enemy air raids usually came after dark.
- Once bought, the children are imprisoned and forced to work from dawn to dusk by their modern-day slave masters.
Origin Late 15th century (as a verb): back-formation from Middle English dawning. |