Dawn

Verb

 * 1)  To begin to brighten with daylight.
 * Before a new day dawns.
 * 1)  To start to appear or be realized.
 * I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns.

Derived terms

 * dawn on

Noun

 * 1)  The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
 * 2)  The rising of the sun.
 * 3)  The time when the sun rises.
 * She rose before dawn to meet the train.
 * 1)  The beginning.
 * The dawn of civilisation.

Synonyms

 * : sunrise
 * : daybreak, sunrise, sunup
 * : beginning, onset, start

Antonyms

 * dusk

Hypernyms

 * twilight

Derived terms

 * crack of dawn
 * dawn chorus
 * it is always darkest before the dawn

Related terms

 * dawning

Adjectives for Dawn
black; crawling; opalescent; dirty; gray thick; crimson; golden; pitiless; pearl cool; false; dismal; cheerless; wet; pale perfect; premature; faint; hushed; slow; tropical: clear; stormy; countless (pi) roseate; autumnal; northern; waking hazy; kindling; crude; softly-breaking radiant; windy; savage; streaked; low dappled; amorous; reddest; tender; noonday; bashful; tempestuous; joyful; azure u nmel! owed; crepuscular; smothering melancholy.

Verbs for Dawn
behold—; foretell—; front—; herald—; journey till—; precede—; rise at—; usher in—; wait for—; wake with—; warn of—; —arouses; —ascends; —blazons; —blushes; —breaks; —cheers; —creeps on; —flares; —fiees; —flushes; —glimmers; —pierces; —ripens into day; —surges; —surprises; —steals over ; —verges with.

Thesaurus
A, advent, alpha, antemeridian, appear, appearance, arise, arrival, arrive, aurora, auroral, awakening, begin, beginning, birth, blast-off, break, break of day, brighten, brightening, broad day, chanticleer, cockcrow, cocklight, come to mind, commence, commencement, crack of dawn, creation, cutting edge, dawning, day, day glow, day-peep, daybreak, daylight, dayshine, dayspring, daytide, daytime, develop, dusk, edge, emerge, emergence, establishment, first brightening, first light, flying start, foundation, fresh start, full sun, genesis, gleam, green flash, grow bright, grow light, inauguration, inception, institution, jump-off, kick-off, leading edge, light, light of day, lighten, matin, matinal, matutinal, midday sun, morn, morning, new departure, noonlight, noontide light, occur to, oncoming, onset, opening, origin, originate, origination, outbreak, outset, outstart, peep of day, prime, ray of sunshine, rise, running start, send-off, setting in motion, setting-up, shine, square one, start, start-off, starting point, sun spark, sunbeam, sunbreak, sunburst, sunlight, sunrise, sunshine, sunup, take-off, twilight, unfold, vestibule of Day

Etymology
Ultimately related to, ‘day’.

Verb

 * Albanian:
 * Asturian: alboriar, alborecer
 * Bulgarian: съмва се, зазорява се
 * Catalan: clarejar
 * Croatian:
 * Danish: daggry
 * Dutch: ,
 * Ewe: fɔŋli
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Greek: ξημερώνω, χαράζω,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: あかつき (akatsuki), 夜明け (yoake), 曙 (akebono)
 * Korean: 밝다 (barkda)


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: شه‌به‌قدان
 * Latin: lucesco, dilucesco, luciscere
 * Macedonian: се разденува, зазорува
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: ,
 * Old English:
 * Polish: świtać
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian: svanuti, rasvetliti, nastupiti
 * Slovene: daniti (se)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: తెల్లారు (tellaaru)
 * Welsh: gwawrio


 * Bulgarian: изгрявам, появявам се
 * Catalan: néixer
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hungarian: dereng
 * Korean: 밝혀지다 (balkhyeojida)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ده‌رکه‌وتن


 * Latin: lucesco, dilucesco, luciscere
 * Macedonian: се разјаснува
 * Portuguese:, nascer
 * Russian: озарять (ozarját’), осенять (osenját’)
 * Serbian: sinuti, sinuće, osanjiti
 * Slovene: razkriti (se)
 * Swedish: gå upp för
 * Welsh: sylweddoli

Noun

 * Arabic: فجر
 * Armenian: արշալույս
 * Bulgarian:, разсъмване
 * Catalan: aurora
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 黎明, 拂曉, 拂晓, 破曉, 破晓
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Morgendämmerung, Dämmerung
 * Greek:, χάραμα, χαραυγή


 * Hindi: उषा
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 夜明け
 * Latin: aurora
 * Macedonian: мугра,
 * Polish: świt, brzask
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: заря, рассвет
 * Serbian: зора
 * Spanish: alba, amanecer
 * Volapük: gödalulit
 * Welsh:


 * Afrikaans: sonop
 * Armenian: լուսաբաց, այգաբաց,
 * Asturian: alba, alborecida, alborecer
 * Bulgarian: зора, разсъмване
 * Catalan: alba
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 天亮 (tiānliàng)
 * Croatian:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: fɔŋli
 * Finnish:, aamunkoitto
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hindi: ,


 * Hungarian: pirkadat,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 夜明け (よあけ, yoake)
 * Korean: 해돋이 (haedodi)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: به‌ره‌به‌یان
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: изгрејсонце, изгрев
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: восход солнца (vosxód sólntsa), рассвет (rassvét) , (утренняя) заря ((útrennjaja) zarjá)
 * Serbian:, ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian: լուսաբաց, այգաբաց,
 * Bulgarian: зори
 * Catalan: albada
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:, ,
 * Dutch:, , ochtendschemering
 * Ewe: fɔŋli
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: Dämmerung, Morgendämmerung , Morgengrauen , Tagesanbruch
 * Greek:, χαραυγή
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Italian: ,
 * Korean: 새벽 (saebyeok)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: به‌ره‌به‌یان, شه‌به‌ق
 * Latin: aurora
 * Macedonian:, мугра
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: восход солнца (vosxód sólntsa), рассвет (rassvét) , (утренняя) заря ((útrennjaja) zarjá)
 * Serbian: svanuti, zora, razdan, rasvet, rasvetliti, svanuti, usvanuti, zasvanuti, svitanje
 * Swedish:
 * Yiddish: פֿאַרטאָג


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: albors
 * Chinese: 拂晓 (fúxiǎo)
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean: 새벽 (saebyeok)
 * Latin: aurora, initium
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish: świt, zaranie
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * : beul an là, mochthràth
 * : తొలి పొద్దు (toli poddu), ఉదయ సంధ్య (udaya saMdhya)

Anagrams

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