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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English dawnen, either a back-formation from dawnynge or a modification of dawen (“to dawn”) after it. The noun is from the verb.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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dawn (third-person singular simple present dawns, present participle dawning, simple past and past participle dawned)

  1. (intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight.
    A new day dawns.
  2. (intransitive, figurative) To start to appear or become obvious.
    Synonym: (archaic or poetic) glimpse
    I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.
    The realization dawned on him that few would pass that final exam.
  3. (intransitive, figurative) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
    • 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
      when life awakes, and dawns at every line
    • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      in dawning youth
    • 2023 February 3, Pope Francis, “Address of His Holiness”, in Apostolic Journey of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan‎[1]:
      Leave the time of war behind and let a time of peace dawn!

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Noun

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dawn (countable and uncountable, plural dawns)

dawn (noun sense 2)
  1. (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
  3. (countable) The rising of the sun.
    Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise; see also Thesaurus:dawn
    • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 209:
      Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity.
  4. (uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
    Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise; see also Thesaurus:dawn
    She rose before dawn to meet the train.
  5. (uncountable) The earliest phase of something.
    Synonyms: beginning, onset, start
    The dawn of civilization didn't imply twilight of barbarity.
    • 1958 July, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, page 495:
      In the Edinburgh area, Leith and neighbouring Granton have only one terminal station where formerly there were four, and the long-established ferry from Granton to Burntisland, the history of which stretches back to the dawn of Scottish railways, is no more.
    • 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
      The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).

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Hyponyms

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Translations

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See also

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See also

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times of dayedit

References

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  1. ^ “dawn, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

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Maltese

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Determiner

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dawn

  1. plural of dan
    Coordinate term: hedawn (hedawna)

Middle English

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Noun

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dawn

  1. alternative form of dan

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Welsh dawn, from Proto-Brythonic *don, from Proto-Celtic *dānus (whence also Irish dán), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃nom (“gift”). Compare Latin dōnum.

Noun

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dawn f (plural doniau)

  1. talent, natural gift, ability
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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dawn

  1. first-person plural future colloquial of dod
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of dawn
radical soft nasal aspirate
dawn ddawn nawn unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Zou

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ɗoon. Cognate with Mizo dáwn.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [dɔ̄n]
  • Hyphenation: dawn

Verb

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dawn

  1. (transitive) to drink

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ɗoŋ. Cognate with Mizo dáwng.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [dɔ́n]
  • Hyphenation: dawn

Verb

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dáwn

  1. (transitive) to welcome
  2. (transitive) to meet; to receive

Etymology 3

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From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ɗooŋ. Cognate with Mizo dǎwng.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [dɔ̀n]
  • Hyphenation: dawn

Noun

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dàwn

  1. end
  2. summit; peak

Etymology 4

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [dɔ̀n]
  • Hyphenation: dawn

Noun

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dàwn

  1. pipe for wine

References

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  • Philip Thangliènmâng (2010), Minimal dictionary and Self-tutor Functional Grammar in Zo-English-Hindi, New Delhi: Zoculsin, →ISBN, page 42; 81; 115
  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou (PhD thesis), Canchipur: Manipur University, page 48
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