different between dawning vs auroral

English

Alternative forms

• daunyng (15th - 16th centuries)

Etymology

From Middle English dawnynge, an alteration of dawing, under the influence of North Germanic cognates (compare Swedish, Danish dagning). See daw (“to dawn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?d??n??/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?d??n??/
• Rhymes: -??n??

Noun

dawning (plural dawnings)

1. (now chiefly poetic) Dawn.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 32:

     […] he arose to make an excursion to the top of Arthur's Seat, to breathe the breeze of the dawning, and see the sun arise out of the eastern ocean.

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

     never there / Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath / After the dewy dawning's cold grey air

   • 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:

     He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon;

     And out o' the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon,

     When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor,

     A red-coat troop came marching—

     Marching—marching—

     King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door.

2. The first beginnings of something.

Translations

Verb

dawning

1. present participle of dawn

Anagrams

• wanding

English

Etymology

aurora +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????????l/, /????????l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??????l/, /??????l/

Adjective

auroral (comparative more auroral, superlative most auroral)

1. Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.

   Synonym: aurorean

   • 1684, Francis Bampfield, Miqra ?qad?sh […] A Grammatical Opening of Some Hebrew Words and Phrases, London: John Lawrence, p. 36,^[1]

     This first created light is properly the auroral light.

   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, New York: Longmans, Green, Lectures 11, 12 and 13, pp. 266-7,^[2]

     This auroral openness and uplift gives to all creative ideal levels a bright and caroling quality, which is nowhere more marked than where the controlling emotion is religious.

   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando, Penguin, 1942, Chapter 1, p. 19,^[3]

     Sunsets were redder and more intense; dawns were whiter and more auroral.

   • 1958, Jean Stafford, “The Children’s Game” in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969, pp. 25-26,^[4]

     Hugh kissed her and Abby felt as young and tremulous as a schoolgirl. But she was not demanding and she was not headlong and she counseled herself to look on this tenuous, auroral experience as one that would last only so long as she remained in England […]

2. Rosy in colour.

   Synonyms: blushing, roseate

   • 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Student’s Tale” in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, p. 38,^[5]

     Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush,

3. Pertaining to the aurora borealis or aurora australis.
   • 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 1, Chapter 10, p. 194,^[6]

     The creature brought within him an amplitude of Northern knowledge. Glacial catastrophes, snow-storm episodes, glittering auroral effects, Polaris in the zenith, Franklin underfoot,—the category of his commonplaces was wonderful.

References

• auroral in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /au?o??al/, [au?.?o??al]

Adjective

auroral (plural aurorales)

1. auroral

Related terms

• aurora

Further reading

• “auroral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.