[ US /ˈdɔn/ ]
[ UK /dˈɔːn/ ]
VERB
  1. become light
    It started to dawn, and we had to get up
  2. appear or develop
    The age of computers had dawned
  3. become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
    she was penetrated with sorrow
    It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
NOUN
  1. an opening time period
    it was the dawn of the Roman Empire
  2. the first light of day
    we got up before dawn
    they talked until morning
  3. the earliest period
    the morning of the world
    the dawn of civilization
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How To Use dawn In A Sentence

  • He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
  • Fun is the secret ingredient of a lot of great companies, but 10 years of economic prosperity, a resurgent stock market, and the dawning of the dot-com have created other business priorities.
  • Clear information boards indicate the location of different types of trees which include Persian, Japanese and black walnut trees, coastal and dawn redwoods, cedar of Lebanon, atlas and deodar cedars, and swamp cypresses.
  • An hour later dawn had come, and as the early morning mist cleared every man could see that the cre st they had reached was a false one. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • At the conclusion of her winter season in Miami, the Norwegian Dawn will begin an innovative itinerary of seven-day Bahamas sailings from New York on May 18.
  • Gorgeous in a seemingly effortless Kate Hudson/Blake Lively kind of way, her future calling dawned on her when she saw her dad performing on stage and became enamored with the costumes the dancers were wearing. Buzzine » Stacey Oristano
  • As if to presage that there is a new dawn in the world, with the inauguration of President Barack Obama, the strong winds coming from the Sub-Sahara have manifested themselves in the form of what Ghana typically knows as the harmattan season. Accra by Day & Night
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  • The night of the dance dawned - or should I say dusked?
  • She had waited here in the orchard since dawn and she was prepared to go on waiting until moonset if necessary. The Night Of the Solstice
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