different between yawning vs dawning

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??n??

Verb

yawning

1. present participle of yawn

Noun

yawning (countable and uncountable, plural yawnings)

1. The action of the verb yawn.

Adjective

yawning (comparative more yawning, superlative most yawning)

1. That yawns or yawn.

2. (figuratively) Wide open.

Translations

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