different between dawning vs awning

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

1615-25 (nautical sense only); from *awn +? -ing, reduction of Middle French auvans (“sloping roof”), from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *an(de)bann? (“eaves”) (compare Occitan ambans (“parapet”)), form of *ande- (intensive prefix) (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) + *band? (“horn; peak”) (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???n??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n??/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /??n??/
• Rhymes: -??n??

Noun

awning (plural awnings)

1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
2. (nautical) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

Translations

Anagrams

• Angwin, waning