dawn

  • 41dawn — 1. noun 1) we got up at dawn Syn: daybreak, sunrise, first light, daylight; first thing in the morning, sun up Ant: dusk 2) the dawn of civilization Syn: beginning …

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  • 42dawn — 1. noun 1) we got up at dawn Syn: daybreak, sunrise, first light, daylight, cockcrow, first thing; N.Amer. sunup 2) the dawn of civilization Syn: beginning, start, birth, inception …

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  • 43dawn — [15] Dawn was originally formed from day. The Old English word dæg ‘day’ formed the basis of dagung, literally ‘daying’, a word coined to designate the emergence of day from night. In Middle English this became daiing or dawyng, which in the 13th …

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  • 44dawn — I. intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English, probably back formation from dawning daybreak, alteration of dawing, from Old English dagung, from dagian Date: 15th century 1. to begin to grow light as the sun rises 2. to begin to appear or… …

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  • 45dawn on — phr verb Dawn on is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑realization, ↑truth …

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  • 46dawn — Synonyms and related words: 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,… …

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  • 47dawn on — Synonyms and related words: be glimpsed, come through, come to mind, dawn upon one, get across, get over, grab one, occur, occur to, offer itself, penetrate, present itself, register, rise to mind, sink in, soak in, strike, strike the mind,… …

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  • 48Dawn — englischer Name, Bedeutung: Morgengrauen. In Deutschland seit dem späten 20. Jahrhundert vorkommend. Namensträgerin: Dawn Fraser, australische Schwimmerin …

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  • 49dawn on — or dawn upon PHRASAL VERB If a fact or idea dawns on you, you realize it. [it V P n that] It gradually dawned on me that I still had talent and ought to run again... [V P n] Then the chilling truth dawned on Captain Gary Snavely …

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  • 50dawn on me — cause me to think of, occur to me, hit me    It didn t dawn on me that they re twins until I saw them together …

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