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dawning
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)
- (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.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 32:
- The first beginnings of something.
Translations
Verb
dawning
- present participle of dawn
Anagrams
- wanding
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daybreak
English
Etymology
day +? break
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?de?b?e?k/
Noun
daybreak (countable and uncountable, plural daybreaks)
- Dawn.
Synonyms
- break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, sunrise; see also Thesaurus:dawn
Antonyms
- dusk, nightfall; see also Thesaurus:dusk
Translations
Further reading
- daybreak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Baker day
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