dawn

[Dawn]

The noun dawn refers to the first light of day, or the first time period, like the dawn of a new era, which occurs when a new president takes office.

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To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

Noun
the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world"

Noun
the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"

Noun
an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire"

Verb
become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"

Verb
become clear or enter one''s consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"

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Verb
appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned"


v. i.
To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

v. i.
To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

n.
The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.

n.
First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.


Dawn

Dawn , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dawned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dawning.] [OE. dawnen, dawen, dagen, daien, AS. dagian to become day, to dawn, fr. d'91g day; akin to D. dagen, G. tagen, Icel. daga, Dan. dages, Sw. dagas. See Day. 71.] 1. To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher.
2. To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. "In dawning youth." Dryden.
When life awakes, and dawns at every line.
Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid.

Dawn

Dawn, n. 1. The break of day; the first appeareance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve.
No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day.
2. First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise. "The dawn of time." Thomson.
These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of serenity over the soul.

To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

The break of day; the first appeareance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.

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Usage Examples

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Misspelled Form

dawn, sdawn, edawn, fdawn, xdawn, cdawn, sawn, eawn, fawn, xawn, cawn, dsawn, deawn, dfawn, dxawn, dcawn, dqawn, dwawn, dsawn, dzawn, dqwn, dwwn, dswn, dzwn, daqwn, dawwn, daswn, dazwn, daqwn, da2wn, da3wn, daewn, daawn, daswn, daqn, da2n, da3n, daen, daan, dasn, dawqn, daw2n, daw3n, dawen, dawan, dawsn, dawbn, dawhn, dawjn, dawmn, daw n, dawb, dawh, dawj, dawm, daw , dawnb, dawnh, dawnj, dawnm, dawn .

Other Usage Examples

It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

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