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English

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Etymology

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Back-formation fromdawning. (If the noun rather than the verb is primary, the noun could directly continuedawing.) Comparedaw(“to dawn”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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dawn (third-person singular simple presentdawns,present participledawning,simple past and past participledawned)

  1. (intransitive) Tobegin tobrighten withdaylight.
    A new daydawns.
  2. (intransitive, figurative) To start toappear or berealized.
    Synonym:(archaic or poetic)glimpse
    I don’t want to be there when the truthdawns on him.
  3. (intransitive, figurative) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

Derived terms

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Translations

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to begin to brighten with daylight
to start to appear, to be realized

Noun

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dawn (countable anduncountable,pluraldawns)

  1. (uncountable) Themorningtwilight period immediately beforesunrise.
  2. (countable) Therising of thesun.
    Synonyms:break of dawn,break of day,daybreak,day-dawn,dayspring,sunrise
  3. (uncountable) Thetime when the sun rises.
    Synonyms:break of dawn,break of day,crack of dawn,daybreak,day-dawn,dayspring,sunrise,sunup
    She rose beforedawn to meet the train.
  4. (uncountable) Theearliestphase of something.
    Synonyms:beginning,onset,start
    thedawn of civilization
    • 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:
      Thedawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).

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Translations

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morning twilight period
rising of the sun
time
beginning
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See also

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References

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Anagrams

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Maltese

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Alternative forms

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Determiner

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dawn

  1. plural ofdan
    Coordinate term:hedawn (hedawna)

Middle English

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Noun

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dawn

  1. Alternative form ofdan

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Welshdawn, fromProto-Brythonic*don, fromProto-Celtic*dānus (whence alsoIrishdán), fromProto-Indo-European*déh₃nom(“gift”). CompareLatindōnum.

Noun

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dawn f (pluraldoniau)

  1. talent, naturalgift,ability
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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dawn

  1. first-personpluralfuturecolloquial ofdod
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Mutation

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Mutated forms ofdawn
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
dawnddawnnawnunchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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