different between dawn vs aubade

English

Etymology

Back-formation from dawning. (If the noun rather than the verb is primary, the noun could directly continue dawing.) Compare daw (“to dawn”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?n/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /do?n/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /d?n/
• Homophones: don, Don (accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

dawn (third-person singular simple present dawns, present participle dawning, simple past and past participle dawned)

1. (intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Matthew xxviii. 1

     In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene […] to see the sepulchre.

2. (intransitive) To start to appear or be realized.
3. (intransitive) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

   • in dawning youth

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     when life awakes, and dawns at every line

Derived terms

• dawn on

Translations

Noun

dawn (countable and uncountable, plural dawns)

1. (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
2. (countable) The rising of the sun.

   Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise

3. (uncountable) The time when the sun rises.

   Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise, sunup

4. (uncountable) The earliest phase of something.

   Synonyms: beginning, onset, start

Antonyms

• dusk

Hypernyms

• twilight

Hyponyms

• astronomical dawn
• civil dawn
• nautical dawn

Derived terms

Related terms

• dawning

Translations

See also

• crepuscular

See also

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

References

• dawn at OneLook Dictionary Search
• dawn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Dwan, wand

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dawn/

Determiner

dawn pl

1. plural of dan

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dau?n/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *don, from Proto-Celtic *d?nus (whence also Irish dán), from Proto-Indo-European *déh?nom (“gift”). Compare Latin d?num.

Noun

dawn f (plural doniau)

1. talent, natural gift, ability

Derived terms

• donio (“to gift, to endow”)
• doniog (“gifted, talented”)
• doniol (“funny”)

Etymology 2

Inflected form of dod (“to come”).

Verb

dawn

1. (colloquial) first-person plural future of dod

Alternative forms

• down (colloquial)
• deuwn (literary)

Mutation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Latin albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o??b??d/

Noun

aubade (plural aubades)

1. A song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn.
2. A morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning.

Coordinate terms

• serenade
• nocturne

Translations

Further reading

• aubade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “aubade”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French aubade, from Middle French aubade, from Old Occitan aubada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o??ba?.d?/
• Hyphenation: au?ba?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

aubade f (plural aubades)

1. A song or musical performance to honour someone, performed in the morning.
2. (uncommon, chiefly historical) An aubade, a morning love song.

Related terms

• albino
• album
• albumen

French

Etymology

From Old French albade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.bad/

Noun

aubade f (plural aubades)

1. aubade (song; poem)
2. aubade (love song)

Descendants

• ? Dutch: aubade
• ? English: aubade

Further reading

• “aubade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).