different between dawn vs gawn

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 1

Corrupted from gallon.

Noun

gawn (plural gawns)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A small tub or lading vessel.

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Etymology 2

Corrupted from going.

Verb

gawn

1. (pronunciation spelling) Eye dialect spelling of certain regional pronunciations of going.
   • 1841, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 8:

     I'm no used to your grandees, and I'm no gawn to begin to learn fashionable mainners noo — so dinna ask me — I'm no gawn to mak a fule o' mysel' at this time o' day.

   • 2007, Jacqueline Wales, When the Crow Sings, page 110:

     Agnes came in dressed in nightgown and curlers. “Are we still gawn to the church bingo the night? I told Bessie I'd be gawn.”

   • 2014, Charles R. Allen, 99 Cent Adventure Time Stories: The House of Weird Sleep, page 3:

     “Ah'm gawn to tear yore skin off with this here whip,” came the guttural voice from behind him. “Then ah'm gawn to rub salt in the cuts an' leave you hyar on the floor.”

Anagrams

• AgNW, Ngwa, Wang, g'wan, gnaw, gwan, wang

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?au?n/

Noun

gawn

1. Soft mutation of cawn.

Verb

gawn

1. Soft mutation of cawn.

Mutation