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noun

Dawn n.

The break of day; the first appearance 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."

First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise. "The dawn of time." "These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of serenity over the soul."

verb

Dawn v. i. (past & past part. dawned; pres. part. dawning)

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."

To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. "In dawning youth." "When life awakes, and dawns at every line." "Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid."

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Etymology of 'Dawn'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dawn" Quotes from Famous Books

... The sullen dawn uncurtained a waste of slag-coloured, heaving waters. The gale had spent its sudden fury, as though its work were now accomplished, but the sky was grey and inhospitable. Matheson raised himself on his knees on the keel of the boat again and again to ...

— Swirling Waters • Max Rittenberg

... should he do if Farmer Eames could not take him on? he began to ask himself; he really felt as if it would be impossible for him to set off on his travels again like a tramp, begging for work all over the country. And for the first time it began faintly to dawn upon him that ...

— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth

... long evening had passed into the dawn with scarcely any darkness, and the sun was now high. He sprang up, and dressed hastily. Going into the passage he saw to his astonishment that while the door of the Ginnells' room was still closed, his father's was wide open. He walked in. The room and the bed were empty. The contents ...

— Lady Merton, Colonist • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... reason, or rather a motive, of his own he pretended to himself that it was not she, but he knew instantly that it was, and he put on his hat. He could see that she did not know him, and it was a pretty thing to witness the recognition dawn on her. When it had its full effect, he was aware of a flutter, a pause in her whole figure before she came on toward him, and he hurried his steps for the charm of ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it ...

— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin

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