dawn
noun /dɔːn/
/dɔːn/
Idioms - [uncountable, countable] the time of day when light first appears synonym daybreak
- at dawn They start work at dawn.
- It's almost dawn.
- We arrived in Sydney as dawn broke (= as the first light could be seen).
- I woke up just before dawn.
- summer’s early dawns
- He works from dawn till dusk (= from morning till night).
- The plane took off, leaving London behind in a blue-grey dawn.
Extra ExamplesTopics Timec1- Dawn was breaking over the valley.
- She awoke to another glorious dawn.
- He always got up to greet the dawn.
- It's almost dawn.
- Be prepared for cold nights and foggy dawns in the mountains next week.
- Ammunition was seized during a dawn raid on the house.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- grey/gray
- early
- greet
- see
- watch
- …
- break
- come
- come up
- …
- light
- sky
- chorus
- …
- at dawn
- before dawn
- by dawn
- …
- (at) the crack of dawn
- from dawn to dusk
- [singular] dawn (of something) the beginning or first signs of something
- the dawn of civilization/time/history
- Peace marked a new dawn in the country's history.
- the dawn of a golden age in European art
Extra Examples- We are seeing the dawn of a new era.
- This sudden success may prove to be a false dawn.
- This appointment marked the dawn of a productive era in her scientific career.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- false
- new
- mark
- signal
- see
- …
- dawn of
Word Originlate 15th cent. (as a verb): back-formation from Middle English dawning alteration of earlier dawing, from Old English dagian ‘to dawn’, of Germanic origin.
Idioms
at the crack of dawn
- (informal) very early in the morning
- I have to get up at the crack of dawn.
break of day/dawn
- (literary) the moment in the early hours of the morning when it begins to get light