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dawn
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)
- (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.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Matthew xxviii. 1
- (intransitive) To start to appear or be realized.
- (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)
- (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
- (countable) The rising of the sun.
- Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise
- (uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
- Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise, sunup
- (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
- 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)
- 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
- (colloquial) first-person plural future of dod
Alternative forms
- down (colloquial)
- deuwn (literary)
Mutation
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midnight
English
Etymology
From Middle English midnight, midnyght, mydnyght, (also as middelni?te), from Old English midniht, middeniht, middeneaht, (also as midderneaht and middelniht), from Proto-Germanic *midjanahts (“midnight”), equivalent to mid- +? night. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Midnoacht (“midnight”), Old High German mittinaht (“midnight”), Danish midnat (“midnight”), Swedish midnatt (“midnight”), Icelandic miðnætti (“midnight”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Middernoacht (“midnight”), Dutch middernacht (“midnight”), German Mitternacht (“midnight”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?dn??t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?d?na?t/
- Hyphenation: mid?night
Noun
midnight (countable and uncountable, plural midnights)
- The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
- 12 o'clock at night exactly.
- Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- "She twisted her hands behind her;
- but all the knots held good!
- She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
- They stretched and strained in the darkness,
- and the hours crawled by like years,
- Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
- Cold, on the stroke of midnight,
- The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
- Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
Synonyms
- (12 o'clock at night): 12 am; 00:00, 12 a.m. (sometimes proscribed), 12 midnight; see also Thesaurus:midnight
Antonyms
- noon, midday
Derived terms
- burn the midnight oil
- midnight regulation
- midnight sun
- postmidnight
Translations
Adjective
midnight (not comparable)
- (poetic) Utterly dark or black.
See also
- (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)
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