Tuesday word: Dawn

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Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025

Dawn (noun, verb)
dawn [dawn]

noun
1. the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
2. the beginning or rise of anything; advent: the dawn of civilization.

verb (used without object)
3. to begin to grow light in the morning: The day dawned with a cloudless sky.
4. to begin to open or develop.
5. to begin to be perceived (usually followed by on): The idea dawned on him.

Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with dawn, also see crack of dawn; light dawned.

Other Words From
dawn like adjective
un·dawned adjective

Related Words
dawning, daybreak, daylight, morning

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Synonyms
1. daybreak, sunrise.
5. appear, occur, break.

Antonyms
1. sunset.

Origin: First recorded before 1150; Middle English dawen (verb), Old English dagian, derivative of dæg day; akin to Old Norse daga, Middle Dutch, Middle Low German dagen, Old High German tagen