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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

... it. Without a doubt, M. Venizelos was right: the epuration of the capital had not gone far enough. To prevent surprises, General Regnault, commander of the landing forces, immediately took the measures which he had carefully planned in advance. By dawn of 25 June, French troops with artillery had occupied all the heights round the town: they were to stay there as long as M. Venizelos wanted ...

— Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 • G. F. Abbott

... our resting-place for the night, lay below us, buried in orchards of olive and orange. We pitched our tents on the banks of a beautiful stream, enjoyed the pipe of tranquillity, after our long march, and soon forgot the Druses, in a slumber that lasted unbroken till dawn. ...

— The Lands of the Saracen - Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain • Bayard Taylor

... her. It was a ghastly sort of thing, this Marse Edwin business, but I saw a chance of escape at the bottom of it. We went to the lower part of the house on tip-toe, and the negress, opening the street door, pushed me out into the cool dawn, saying with a shaking voice, 'Run, Marse Edwin, run fer yer life! Watch out for de sojers! Good-bye, Gawd bress you, my lam'!' And ...

— The Statesmen Snowbound • Robert Fitzgerald

... betrayed his companions in misfortune. This step was shortly followed by an intimacy which, probably in the commencement, was grounded upon mutual good-will. Men become perfidious by slow degrees; and perform actions, as they advance in life, which they would blush to reflect on in the day-dawn of their ...

— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Volume III. • Mrs. Thomson

... yet he would not get down from his horse, neither would he take any rest, or listen to any comfort, until he should have found Sir Ossaise and settled this account. It appeared, by what I could piece together of the unprofane fragments of his statement, that he had chanced upon Sir Ossaise at dawn of the morning, and been told that if he would make a short cut across the fields and swamps and broken hills and glades, he could head off a company of travelers who would be rare customers for ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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