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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

... through the trees to show the beaten track. She wondered who had travelled that way as she had not heard Norman refer to any one coming from the great river. She had no idea as to the time of night, although she hoped that it might be late for then she could look forward more hopefully to the dawn. That the trail would lead her to the mast-cutters she had not the slightest doubt, so this gave her ...

— The King's Arrow - A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists • H. A. Cody

... so the proverb goes, is just before the dawn, and after Lilian had had her cry out and was sitting at her window in the dusk, watching a thin new moon shining over the trees down the street, her inspiration came to her. A minute later she whirled into the tiny sitting-room where her ...

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... She marked the inevitable false rhyme of Cockney and Yankee beginners, morn and dawn, and tossed the verses on the pile of papers she had finished. She was looking over some of the last of them in a rather listless way,—for the poor thing was getting sleepy in spite of herself,—when she ...

— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... it was about two hours to dawn, when, in spite of his efforts to keep awake, he found his head dropping back on Ben's legs, and he was soon fast asleep. How long he had been lost in forgetfulness he could not tell, when he heard Stone give ...

— Ned Garth - Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade • W. H. G. Kingston

... familiar lines about the daisy, extolled a quite different flower from ours - Bellis perennis, the little pink and white blossom that hugs English turf as if it loved it - the true day's-eye, for it closes at nightfall and opens with the dawn. ...

— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan

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