different between sunrise vs dawning

English

Etymology

From Middle English sonne-rys, sunne ryse, equivalent to sun +? rise. Compare Middle English son risyng, sunne rijsyng, sonne-rysing (“sunrise”, literally “sun rising”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?n?a?z/

Noun

sunrise (countable and uncountable, plural sunrises)

1. The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.

   Synonyms: sunup, crack of dawn, dawn, (slang) sparrow-fart; see also Thesaurus:dawn

   Antonyms: sunset; see also Thesaurus:dusk

   Coordinate term: moonrise

2. The change in color of the sky at dawn.

3. (figuratively) Any great awakening.

Derived terms

• sunrise industry
• sunrise period
• sunrise problem
• sunrise service
• tequila sunrise

Translations

See also

• sunset
• moonset
• moonrise

Further reading

• sunrise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Sunseri, insures, nursies, ursines

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