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dawn English

Meaning dawn meaning

What does dawn mean?
Definitions in simple English

dawn Noun

— Dawn is the start of the morning light just before sunrise. He woke up before dawn to do a morning jog. — The dawn of something is the beginning of it.

dawn Verb

— If something dawns upon a person or thing, they realise it. It dawned upon him that his answer to the question was wrong.

dawn

— noun (= dawning, morning, first light) the first light of day we got up before dawn they talked until morning — noun (= morning) the earliest period the dawn of civilization the morning of the world — verb (= penetrate) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions It dawned on him that she had betrayed him she was penetrated with sorrow — verb become light It started to dawn, and we had to get up — verb appear or develop The age of computers had dawned — noun an opening time period it was the dawn of the Roman Empire

Synonyms dawn synonyms

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dawn English » English

daybreak sunrise morning aurora break early morning daylight cockcrow morn beginning dawning twilight day-break break of day become light start sun-up first light day break sunup rising sun outset grow light forenoon dusk dayspring break of the day sunup term sunlight spend the night origin nightfall morning twilight light up glimmer end develop crack of dawn commencement click brighten begin become daylight be light be dawn appear vesper very early in the morning unfold turn white

Topics dawn topics

What do people use dawn to talk about?
States Time Period of time Day

Time of the day
Universe, creation Sky

Sun
Language and thought Think

Learn
Language and thought Think Learn

Realize
States Time Relative time Right time

Early

Conjugation dawn conjugation

How do you conjugate dawn?

dawn · verb

Examples dawn examples

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Simple sentences

I awoke this morning at the crack of dawn, only to find that the crops had been ruined by ravenous birds.
It's commonly supposed that all fairy tales are stories from the folk tradition, passed through the generations by storytellers since the dawn of history.
The accident occurred at dawn.
We got up at dawn.
We got up at dawn to avoid a traffic jam.
Gradually the true meaning of what he said began to dawn on me.
They surprised the enemy at dawn.
In spring, the dawn.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
Dawn breaks, which is no small thing.
Tom left to go fishing shortly before dawn.
Tom left his house before dawn.
I got along so well with the guy sitting next to me at the pub that we ended up drinking together till dawn.
I'm beat. I've been working from dawn to dusk.
I will get to the foot of the hill before dawn.
We must get up at dawn.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Stay with me till the dawn.
The enemy attack ceased at dawn.
The dawn is breaking.
It began to dawn.

Movie subtitles

Entire villages found empty at dawn, and then. The people are found dead in the forest.
We'll wait 'till dawn, then we'll leave.
A gloomy dawn.
Tomorrow at dawn.
A bit before dawn.
At the break of dawn the fiddler is leaving.
Dawn.
They may even escape to Scotland before dawn.
It was not until dawn's early light that the skipper saw the sight he was longing for.
At dawn the island was a smouldering ruin.
At dawn Hutter set out to investigate the horrors of the previous nights.
The dawn will see no Nibelung alive.
Then came the dawn.
We left with the cavalry at dawn and encountered them at noon.
He thought he'd seen the dawn of the Arab Kingdom. History decided otherwise.
I'm not sure about that myself, but since the dawn of history, we've coexisted with humans.
The sea has begun to open up to the west. They may even escape to Scotland before dawn.
The night is short, dawn is close!
Let us hurry, the night is short, dawn is close!
The night is short, dawn is close.
The next day, at dawn, the priest set off with his godson.
We leave at dawn.
You have until dawn.
It will be dawn soon.
You will be executed tomorrow morning at dawn.
At dawn.
We've got two hours till dawn.
I'm always up at the crack of dawn.
That Dawn La Gatta.
You won't be home till dawn.
At dawn?
What makes the dawn come up like thunder?
We see first a group of dancers in costumes to suggest the delicate light of dawn.
Under his spell, they dance furiously until the coming of dawn and the sounds of church bells send the infernal army slinking back into their abodes of darkness.
Sometimes she and Mr. De Winter didn't come home until dawn.
Why? That can't be the dawn breaking over there.
See the God's dawn?

News and current affairs

WASHINGTON, DC - I grew up in the shadow of World War II, and at the dawn of the Cold War.
At the dawn of the 1990's, Japan's dominance in export markets worldwide had already been dented somewhat by the rise of its smaller Asian neighbors, including Malaysia, Korea, Thailand, and Singapore.
With the bloody wars of the Yugoslav succession still etched deeply in everyone's minds, does Djindjic's assassination herald the end of an era of political violence or the dawn of a new one?
A New Dawn for Chinese Journalism?
At the dawn of a new Arab era, it is up to them to build new, open political systems that can head off the looming threat of escalating crises.
Who would have thought that, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the old Enlightenment debates would still be so potent?
The EU is no super-state striding bravely into a bright new dawn.
The rise of Greece's neo-fascist Golden Dawn is a similar phenomenon.
Unfortunately, the moves against Golden Dawn are mostly identified with the government's interests, rather than being perceived as the result of careful, independent judgment.
The fact that Greece nonetheless is effectively trying to destroy Golden Dawn - the parliament just voted to freeze the party's state funding - suggests that, in the end, most democracies will want to draw the line somewhere.
One criterion that seems universally accepted is a party's use, encouragement, or at least condoning of violence - as was evidently the case with Golden Dawn's role in attacks on immigrants in Athens.
It has been with us since the dawn of mankind, and its economic impact today is massive.
Migrants who do not register and live on the street are attacked by the hooligans of the neo-fascist Golden Dawn party.
Currently, Golden Dawn is making political headway by providing social services to Greeks while attacking migrants.
If this is to be a turning point for Africa, rather than another false dawn, this summer must be the start of a prolonged effort to stimulate private-sector engagement.
A peaceful, democratic dawn in Iraq, they assert, would soon break over other authoritarian Arab states as well.
It fell to Henry Kissinger, who was present at the dawn of the modern US-China relationship, to put it all into context.
MELBOURNE - Last month, at the Sea World amusement park in Florida, a whale grabbed a trainer, Dawn Brancheau, pulled her underwater, and thrashed about with her.
That sense is always more likely when the debtor's action comes without warning - the financial equivalent of a pre-dawn attack.
CAMBRIDGE - Since the dawn of the industrial age, a recurrent fear has been that technological change will spawn mass unemployment.
Since when were we happy for Christmas to dawn in early November?
The coming months will reveal whether we are, indeed, witnessing the dawn of the post-Oslo era in Palestinian politics, and whether a new leader, with new supporters, will be required to revive the Palestinian cause.
But the political agenda that he espoused while in office passed away long ago, on May 19, 1989, when he appeared in Tiananmen Square just before dawn to beg tearfully for the forgiveness of protesters.
NEW YORK: At the dawn of the 21st century, the United Nations has become more central to the lives of more people than ever.
India's independence marked the dawn of the era of decolonization, but many nations threw off the yoke of empire only after bloody and violent struggles.
Since the dawn of human consciousness, we have contemplated our own mortality and dreamed of ways of overcoming it.
That was at the dawn of the Bretton Woods era in 1945.

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