dawn

Definition of dawn in English English dictionary: A female given name sometimes given to a girl born at that time of day
Dawn, go away, I’m no good for you.; To start to appear or be realized
I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns.; The beginning
The dawn of civilisation.; The time when the sun rises
She rose before dawn to meet the train.; The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise; To begin to brighten with daylight
Before a new day dawns.; The rising of the sun; {n} the first rise, beginning, break of day; {v} to grow light, glimmer, open, appear; A female given name, sometimes given to someone born at that time of day; When you say that a particular day dawned, you mean it arrived or began, usually when it became light. When the great day dawned, the first concern was the weather; at the crack of dawn: see crack; the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"; The dawn of a period of time or a situation is the beginning of it. the dawn of the radio age; 1 the awakening of new forces 2 a healing 3 a fresh perceptive or new approach 4 a break through in understanding; To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns; If something is dawning, it is beginning to develop or come into existence. Throughout Europe a new railway age, that of the high-speed train, has dawned + dawning dawn·ing the dawning of the space age; First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise; appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned"; the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire" become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up" appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned; become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"; an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire"; Drug Abuse Warning Network, a SAMHSA-funded program which monitors drug abuse among persons admitted at hospital emergency rooms; Dawn is the time of day when light first appears in the sky, just before the sun rises. Nancy woke at dawn; become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"; {f} become light; begin, start; become clear; start to understand; To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand; The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise; {i} sunrise; appearance; The first appearance of light in the eastern sky before sunrise It marks the beginning of morning twilight The visual display is created by the scattering of light reaching the upper atmosphere prior to the sun's rise to the observer's horizon; appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned; a segment of time of each day when some people (who suffer from sleeping disorder) are most likely to hit the most ingenious ideas; the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world"; daybreak; dawning
dawn chorus: Early morning birdsong
dawn chorus: radio interference sometimes experienced at sunrise
dawn of a new day: A new beginning; a fresh start; an important, promising turning point
It’s the dawn of a new day—a new era, even—for the Queens Chamber of Commerce.
dawn on: to occur to somebody; to be realized
It finally dawned on him that he could automate the process instead of doing it by hand each time.
dawn patrol: The act of going out for a surf at dawn, or surfers who do that
dawn sundog: (Tekstil) A false sunrise or dawn sundog is a very particular kind of parhelion, belonging to the optical phenomenon family of halos
dawn on someone: occur to someone
Dawn Fraser: born Sept. 4, 1937, Balmain, near Sydney, Austl. Australian swimmer. She broke the women's world record for the 100-m freestyle race nine successive times between 1956 and 1964 and became the first woman swimmer to win gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games. Her 1964 100-m freestyle record of 58.9 seconds stood for eight years. She set world marks in freestyle swimming at six different distances
dawn broke: the day broke, the sun began to rise
dawn chorus: The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn. the dawn chorus the sound of many birds singing at dawn
dawn on: begin to understand; come to mind
dawn on: If a fact or idea dawns on you, you realize it. It gradually dawned on me that I still had talent and ought to run again Then the chilling truth dawned on Captain Gary Snavely. = strike
dawn on someone: occur to someone, come to someone's mind (i.e. thought, idea, understanding)
dawn raid: If police officers carry out a dawn raid, they go to someone's house very early in the morning to search it or arrest them. Thousands of pounds worth of drugs were seized in dawn raids yesterday
dawn raid: If a person or company carries out a dawn raid, they try to buy a large number of a company's shares at the start of a day's trading, especially because they want to buy the whole company. Southern acquired 11.2 per cent of Sweb in a dawn raid on Monday. an attack or operation by soldiers or police that happens very early in the morning
dawn redwood: A cone-bearing Chinese tree (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) related to the redwood, having deciduous, flat, opposite leaves and small, globular cones. It is now commonly cultivated in the United States. Coniferous, nonevergreen tree (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), the only living species of the genus Metasequoia, of the family Taxodiaceae, native to remote valleys of central China. Both branchlets and leaves grow out in pairs from points along the stem. The bright green, feathery leaves turn reddish brown in autumn. Though Metasequoia fossils are abundant, the tree was thought to be extinct until living specimens were discovered in the 1940s. Only a few thousand are known to have survived, in central China. Since these stands were discovered, seeds and cuttings have been planted throughout the world
crack of dawn: The first moment of daylight; sunrise
This is high-speed travel, Muriel. Not fun. I'm waking up at crack of dawn..
dawned: Simple past tense and past participle of dawn
dawning: Dawn
After the dewy dawning's cold grey air.
dawning: The first beginnings of something
They'll take over the world.
dawning: Present participle of dawn
false dawn: A thin ambient light which precedes true dawn, typically by around an hour, in certain parts of the world
The moon was low down, and there was just the glimmer of the false dawn that comes about an hour before the real one.
false dawn: Something engendering premature hope; a promising sign which in fact leads to nothing
As Congo nears the 50th anniversary of its independence from Belgium on June 30th, Mr Chebeya’s murky death suggests that 2006 was a false dawn.
from dawn to dusk: From sunrise to sunset
from dawn to dusk: At daytime
from dusk to dawn: At night, nighttime
Roos and wallabies often leap onto roads, particularly from dusk to dawn; keep your speed under 70km/h at these times.
from dusk to dawn: From sunset to sunrise
handbags at dawn: A catty squabble
pistols at dawn: A duel
pistols at dawn: A challenge to a duel
The dawn: daypeep
To dawn: daw
at dawn: at sunrise, at the first light of day
at the crack of dawn: at the very beginning of dawn, right during sunrise, at daybreak
before dawn: before the sunrise, before the sun comes up, before the first light of day
break of dawn: sunrise, first light of day, early morning
crack of dawn: first rise of the sun, the top of the morning
dawned: past of dawn
dawning: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"
dawns: plural of dawn
dawns: third-person singular of dawn
false dawn: a situation in which something good seems likely to happen, but it does not
flush of dawn: early light of morning
from dusk till dawn: all day long, throughout the day, from sunrise to sunset
till dawn: until the early hours of the morning, throughout the night