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dawn
Listen/doːn/
Listen/dɔːn/
Listen/dɔn/
noun
The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
The rising of the sun.
- break of dawn
- break of day
- day-dawn
- dayspring
- sunrise
The time when the sun rises.
She rose before dawn to meet the train.
- break of dawn
- break of day
- crack of dawn
- day-dawn
- daybreak
- dayspring
- sunrise
- sunup
The earliest phase of something.
the dawn of civilization
- beginning
- onset
- start
verb
To begin to brighten with daylight.
A new day dawns.
To start to appear or be realized.
I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.
To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.