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Definition: Dawn |
DawnNoun1. The first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning". 2. The earliest period: "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world". 3. An opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire". Verb1. Become clear suddenly; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him". 2. Appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned". 3. Become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Dawn" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the dawn". |
Date "dawn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Dawn \Dawn\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Dawned; Dawning.]. (references) |
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Satire | DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dawn or civil dawn is the time at which the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon in the morning. Civil dawn is defined as that time at which there is enough light for objects to be distiguishable and that outdoor activities can commence.Nautical dawn is the time at which the sun is 12 degrees below the horizon in the morning. Nautical dawn is defined as that time at which there is just enough sunlight for objects to be distiguishable.
Astronomical dawn is the time at which the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon in the morning. Astronomical dawn is that point in time at which the sun starts lightening the sky. Prior to this time, the sky is completely dark
Dawn should not be confused with sunrise, which is the moment when the leading edge of the Sun itself appears above the horizon.
See also dusk.
In Western tradition it is believed that evil spirits, demons, and even Satan are obliged to disappear at dawn, for being they creatures of Darkness hate light, especially that of the Sun. Pre-Christian Celts also shared this belief.
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dawn Summers is a fictional character in the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer played by Michelle Trachtenberg.Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers.
Dawn is the younger sister of the title character Buffy Summers. She first appeared in the series' fifth-season episode Buffy vs. Dracula, and would continue to appear as a regular cast member throughout the following seasons. Her introduction in the series came as something of a surprise, since prior seasons showed no indication that Buffy had a younger sister. During the fifth season's story arc, it was revealed that Dawn was in fact a 'key'; that her true nature was a mystical energy that possessed the capability to 'unlock the doors between dimensions.' Dawn's identity had been concealed, and her human form entrusted to Buffy, by a group of monks who intended to hide the 'key' from the evil goddess, Glory.
Dawn, and those around her, were unaware of her true nature for quite some time. She had been forged into human form with a complete recollection of her false life as Buffy's sister, and those surrounding Dawn had also been imbued with artificial memories, making Dawn's eventual discovery of the facts about her existence difficult to come to terms with, and causing a crisis of identity.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DAWN | English | Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era | Social Sciences |
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Synonyms: DawnSynonyms: aurora (n), break of day (n), break of the day (n), cockcrow (n), dawning (n), daybreak (n), dayspring (n), first light (n), morning (n), sunrise (n), sunup (n), click (v), come home (v), fall into place (v), get across (v), get through (v), penetrate (v), sink in (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: sunset (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beginning | Verb: begin, start, commence; conceive, open, dawn, set in, take its rise, enter upon, enter; set out; (depart); embark in; incept. |
Origin; (cause); source, rise; bud, germ; egg, rudiment; genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy; start, inception, creation, starting point; dawn; (morning); evolution. | |
Hope | Beam of hope, ray of hope, gleam of hope, glimmer of hope, flash of hope, dawn of hope, star of hope; cheer; bit of blue sky, silver lining, silver lining of the cloud, bottom of Pandora's box, balm in Gilead; light at the end of the tunnel. |
Knowledge | Light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn; scent, suspicion; impression; (idea); discovery; a. |
Morning | Noun: morning, morn, forenoon, a.m., prime, dawn, daybreak; dayspring, foreday, sunup; |
Precursor | Noun: precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor; forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome, prodromos, prodromus, outrider; leader, bellwether; herald, harbinger; foreboding; dawn; avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper, stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker. |
Priority | Verb: precede, come before; forerun; go before; (lead); preexist; dawn; presage; herald, usher in. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dawn |
| English words defined with "dawn": Araujia sericofera, Asvins, aurora, auroral, aurorean, Ave Mary ♦ cruel plant ♦ Dawned, day, daylight, Day-peep, daytime ♦ enchanter's nightshade, Eos ♦ forenoon ♦ genus Metasequoia, grayly, greyly ♦ half-light, Heimdal, Heimdall, Heimdallr, history ♦ morn, morning, morning time ♦ To break upon ♦ Ushas ♦ Zodiacal light. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dawn": Aijeleth Shahar ♦ Darkest Hour is that before the Dawn ♦ Experience ♦ FOOL ♦ MACROBIAN, Morning ♦ ram-a-dhan, ramazan ♦ SATAN ♦ Woman ♦ Zareth-shahar. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dawn": Eozoon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dawn" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Welsh (gift, talent). |
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Screenplays | Behold, the dawn of a new age. My mutant plants have the strength of the deadliest animals (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) It's dawn now and they must have photographed me a thousand times (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett) Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Double-0 seven on an island populated exclusively by women? We won't see him till dawn! (Octopussy; writing credit: George MacDonald Fraser) I believe you asked for a wakeup call at the dawn of time (Dinosaur; writing credit: Walon Green; Thom Enriquez) | |
Lyrics | Or I can make it disappear by the dawn; (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply) I KNOW YOU WANNA JAM FROM NIGHT TO DAWN (I Know Where It's At; performing artist: All Saints) We'd make it home to your place before dawn (At The Stars; performing artist: Better Than Ezra) And wait for the dawn (Kiss the Rain; performing artist: Billie Myers) I finally see the dawn arrivin' (Don't Look Back; performing artist: BOSTON) | |
Clever | Death is not totally extinguishing the light, but turning off the lamp because the dawn has come. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tony Orlando and Dawn (1974) The White Dawn (1974) Promise at Dawn (1970) The End of Dawn (1964) Dawn Gawn (1958) | |
Song Titles | Dolly Dawn (performing artist: Harry Belafonte) Delta Dawn (performing artist: Helen Reddy) Dawn (performing artist: The Four Seasons) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A full moon reflecting off the river - almost at dawn. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | V-formation of Canada geese flying over the upper Patuxent River at dawn. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Howie at lunch, even hurricane hunters have to eat. Flying to Tropical Storm Dawn in ESSA research aircraft DC-6 40C. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | In the "eye" of Tropical Storm Dawn. Eye is open to west and virga is visible precipitating from clouds. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | Flying to Tropical Storm Dawn. A view of submarine topography on the Bahamas Banks. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | KC-10 taxis at dawn. |
 | Dawn view from the peak of the Happy Jack Chalk mine. Credit: USDA. |  | Black Water Wildlife Refuge in Maryland at dawn. Credit: USDA. |
 | As dawn breaks another day begins for three generations a family owned and operated farm. Credit: USDA. |  | Hazy dawn during fire. Credit: Steve Lent. |
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| "Financial at dawn" by jens karlsson Commentary: "Shot just outside Kioken inc. , financial district, NY." | "Dawn" by Mark Stanton Commentary: "This is one morning when I was about to go surfing but there was no surf, instead a lovely storm out to sea." |
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 | Birds chirping at dawn. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Adelaide Crapsey | These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead. |
Emily Dickinson | Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious! |
Hesiod | The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work. |
Jean De La BruyFre | We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. |
Joaquin Miller | Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light. |
Meleager | Farewell, Morning Star, herald of dawn, and quickly come as the Evening Star, bringing again in secret her whom thou takest away. |
Thomas Jefferson | Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. |
Victor Hugo | When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. |
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Twice the United States has had to send several millions of its young men across the Atlantic to find the war; but now war can find any nation, wherever it may dwell between dusk and dawn. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Last Chance To See | Douglas Adams | Being woken up at dawn by the cockerels is not in itself a problem |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She had to be there by six in the morning, long before the dawn in the winter |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The cold light of the dawn lay over the country, over the unpeopled fields and the closed cottages |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Only the unbalanced sky showed the approach of dawn, no horizon to the west, and a line to the east |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures |
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Health | Stay indoors at dawn, dusk, and in the early evening. (references) | |
Avoid outdoor activities, especially from dusk to dawn, when sand flies are the most active. (references) | ||
Sand flies usually are most active in twilight, evening, and night-time hours (from dusk to dawn). (references) | ||
Children | Pakistan | In 1999 the English-language newspaper Dawn reported that doctors in Sindh had persuaded the Sindh health department to order a halt to the reporting of polio cases; however, polio cases were reported during the year. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Vietnam | On March 17, Le Quang Liem, head of the organization that does not have government approval, and Nguyen Van Dien, his Deputy, were detained and placed under 2-year house arrest orders after meeting with a group of Hoa Hao followers in a HCMC park before dawn. (references) |
Economic History | Pakistan | The Dawn, The News, The Nation, The Frontier Post and the Business Recorder are now also available on the Internet. (references) |
Human Rights | Uganda | School facilities and health clinics in all five institutions are defunct; prisoners as young as age 12 perform manual labor from dawn until dusk. (references) |
Cuba | Diosdado Amelo reportedly had requested medical assistance the day before, but only was taken to the hospital at dawn; he died while being treated. (references) | |
Travel | Saudi Arabia | The prayer times are published in the newspaper and come at dawn, noon, afternoon, sunset, and evening. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Reveals the path that he should not have gone. Joel Frad Bink |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | A black after hard labor through the day, will be induced by the slightest amusements to sit up till midnight, or later, though knowing he must be out with the first dawn of the morning. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | But as our eyes catch the dimness of the first rays of dawn, let us not curse the remaining dark. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | This beautiful capital, like every capital since the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and calculation. |
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| "Dawn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 65.67% of the time. "Dawn" is used about 2,133 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 65.67% | 1,401 | 5,728 |
| Noun (proper) | 29.65% | 632 | 10,281 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.4% | 94 | 33,845 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.28% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,133 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dawn" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dawn | First name Female | 202,000 | 105 |
| Dawn | Last name | 400 | 19,735 |
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| "Dawn" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the dawn". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "dawn". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Dawn | Female | English | The dawn |
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| United Kingdom | Aberdeen New Dawn Investment Trust Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Dawn, MO |
Expressions using "dawn": at dawn ♦ at the crack of dawn ♦ be dawn ♦ before dawn ♦ by dawn ♦ dawn horse ♦ dawn of freedom ♦ dawn on ♦ dawn on him ♦ dawn picnic to hear first birdsong ♦ dawn redwood ♦ dawn upon smb. ♦ dawn upon smb. to ♦ from dawn till dusk ♦ from dawn to dusk ♦ light of early dawn ♦ pull dawn. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dawn": dawn-dirty, dawn-light, dawn-lipped, dawn-streaked, dawn-to-dusk, dawn-very. | |
Ending with "dawn": dusk-to-dawn, pre-dawn. | |
Containing "dawn": before-dawn-returning. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dawn | 3,293 | daily dawn | 112 |
linsey dawn mckenzie | 1,591 | dawn marie nude | 96 |
dawn place | 510 | dawn newspaper | 93 |
lindsey dawn mckenzie | 413 | linsey dawn mackenzie | 91 |
dawn marie | 397 | red dawn | 81 |
dawn of the dead | 339 | dawn dead remake | 79 |
dawn well | 305 | delta dawn | 74 |
dawn stone | 267 | dawn pakistan | 72 |
norwegian dawn | 257 | dawn goddess | 71 |
carolyn dawn johnson | 219 | dawn princess | 71 |
invitation by dawn | 202 | new dawn rose | 67 |
from dusk till dawn | 186 | dawn french | 59 |
dawn lindsey | 167 | dawn robinson | 58 |
rae dawn chong | 164 | dawn redwood | 54 |
the terminator dawn of fate | 159 | dawn mckenzie | 51 |
cheat dawn fate terminator | 147 | black dawn | 49 |
golden dawn | 142 | dusk till dawn | 49 |
pm dawn | 125 | julie dawn cole | 48 |
arnie dawn rob | 121 | lindsey dawn mackenzie | 48 |
dawn whitham | 116 | chong dawn | 47 |
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| Language | Translations for "dawn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | agim (Aurora, daybreak, daylight, dayspring, morning, sunrise). (various references) | |
Arabic | فجر (aurora, beginning, blast, blow up, burst, detonate, dynamite, explode, let flow, morning, set off, shot out, spout, spurt, undermine), غرة مطلع (first, onset), تطلع الشمس, طلع النهار, بزوغ (distinctness, emergence), بزغ (peep, rise), بدء (commencement, incipience, onset). (various references) | |
Asturian | alborecer. (various references) | |
Aymara | alhua (to dawn). (various references) | |
Bemba | kumaca. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | waapinako (to be morning, to dawn). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съмва се, явявам се (appear, come, intervene, materialize, present, raise up, render, roll up, show, show up, walk), разсъмване (daybreak), начало (abc, basis, beginning, debut, forepart, genesis, inception, incipience, infancy, initiation, kick off, lead off, offset, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, principle, proem, rise, rudiment, set out, source, start), зора (cockcrow, dayspring, morning), зазорява се, първи проблясъци, пука се, почвам (begin, get going, go, go ahead, launch, start). (various references) | |
Catalan | alba (daybreak). (various references) | |
Cebuano | kaadlawon. (various references) | |
Chamorro | atba. (various references) | |
Chinese | 黎明 (daybreak). (various references) | |
Cornish | bora. (various references) | |
Czech | svítat, svítání (daybreak, sunrise), rozednívat se, rozbřesknout se, úsvit (daybreak, prime), èervánky. (various references) | |
Danish | daggry (daybreak). (various references) | |
Dutch | morgenrood (aurora, red of dawn), morgenlicht (aurora), aurora (Aurora). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tagiĝo (daybreak). (various references) | |
Faeroese | dimmalætting, morgunroði (aurora). (various references) | |
Farsi | فجر (Aurora), سپیده دم (Aurora, Cockcrow, Daybreak, Streak), طلوع (Break, Peep, Rise), اغازشدن (Begin), اغاز (Alpha, Aurora, Birth, Inception, Instep, Jumpoff, Outset, Preface, Prime, Start). (various references) | |
Finnish | aamunkoitto (daybreak). (various references) | |
French | aurore (daybreak, red of dawn), point du jour (daybreak, daylight), aube (daybreak). (various references) | |
Frisian | dage (daybreak), moarnsdage, lemieren (daybreak). (various references) | |
German | Morgendämmerung (daybreak, twilight), Dämmerung (dusk, evening twilight, gloaming, half-light, twilight), dämmern (be dopey, doze, drowse, fall), tagesanbruch (daybreak, daylight), beginn (advent, beginning, commencement, inauguration, inception, induction, initiation, morning, onset, opening, outset, start, threshold), anbruch (advent, beginning, birth, dawning, fall). (various references) | |
Greek | αυγή (aurora, cockcrow, daylight, morn). (various references) | |
Guarani | ko'êtîme (at dawn). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | agullim (daybreak), agim (daybreak). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משחר (childhood, youth), לזרוח (bloom, glow, radiate, rise, shine), להתחיל להאיר, שחר (morning), קריץ, עמוד השחר (morning star), עלות השחר (dayspring). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hajnal (Aurora, dawning, daybreak, day-break, orient, prime, rise of day), virradat (prime), születés (birth, nascency, nativity), reggeli szürkület, pirkadat (daybreak), kezdet (beginning, commencement, conception, debut, first, inception, incipience, initiation, initiative, lead off, onset, origin, outset, parent, prime, rudiment, setout, start), keletkezés (formation, genesis). (various references) | |
Indonesian | dinihari (aurora), subuh, layar (monitor, sail, screen), fajar (aurora, daybreak). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | nipitillugu siqiniq. (various references) | |
Italian | alba (aurora, daybreak, sunrise, sunup, twilight), aurora (aurora), albeggiare. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鶏鳴 (cocks-crowing), 暁天, 暁 (daybreak, in the event of), 払暁 (daybreak). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎょうてん (being amazed, being horrified, being taken aback), そうぎょう (daybreak, establishment, operation, priestly attire, the form of a Buddhist priest), そうてん (bluesky, charge, drill manual, early morning, fill, load, point at issue, sum total of one's marks, total points or score), しののめ (daybreak), しょこう (first, first watch of the night, lords, princes, prospects), ふつぎょう (daybreak), れいめい (daybreak, fame, good reputation), あさあけ (daybreak), あかつき (daybreak, in the event of), あけがた, あけぼの (beginning, daybreak), あけ (beginning, end, expiration), よあけ (daybreak), けいめい (cocks-crowing, penalty designations), てんめい (daybreak, destiny, God's will, Heaven's decree, karma, one's life). (various references) | |
Korean | 새벽 (Dawned, Daybreak). (various references) | |
Macedonian | utrina. (various references) | |
Manx | toshiaght (beginning, bow, bow of ship, captain, captain of team, commencement, curtain-raiser, dawning, fore, forefront, forepart, forestalling, genesis, getaway, inception, initiation, lead, opening, origin, outset, preliminary, start, stem, threshold, threshold of pain etc, vanguard), madran (aurora, daybreak, peep-of-dawn), irree yn laa (daybreak, rise of the day), goaill toshiaght (begin, break out, breed, come up, commence, originate, set to, start), gerrym y chellee (cock crow). (various references) | |
Maori | atatuu. (various references) | |
Maya | ahal-kaab. (various references) | |
Norwegian | daggry. (various references) | |
Papago | mahsi (to dawn). (various references) | |
Papiamen | amanesé (daybreak, morning). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awnday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | madrugada (cockcrow, daybreak, fresh, morning), aurora (aurora, dawning, daybreak, daylight, day-spring, morn, morning), amanhecer (dawning), alvorecer (aurora). (various references) | |
Provencal | alba. (various references) | |
Quechua | tutamanta. (various references) | |
Romanian | zori de zi, se ivi (appear, arise, break, come, come to light, crop up, emerge, loom, offer, peep, peer, perform, present, spring), se crãpa de ziuã (the day is breaking), aurorã (Aurora, daybreak), apãrea (appear, arise, break, come, come in one's way, come in sight, crop out, emerge, figure, glimpse, go out, happen, peep, peer, present, rise, show one's face, spring), început (beginning, commencement, dayspring, entrance, first, germ, go off, head, head line, inchoation, lead off, morning, opening, outset, setting in, source, spring, start, starter, starting). (various references) | |
Romansch | far di (to dawn). (various references) | |
Romany | givesàlo. (various references) | |
Ruanda | igicugu. (various references) | |
Russian | становиться ясным (bear in to be borne in on smb.), светать, рассветать рассвет (dawning), рассветать, рассвет (break of day, cock-crow, daybreak, daylight, day-spring, peep of dawn, peep of day, peep of morning), начинаться (begin, commence, start off), заря (dayspring, day-spring), зачатки, приходить в голову (come to mind, enter ~ mind, recur), появляться (appear, come out, emerge, make an appearance, manifest, show up, spring, turn up). (various references) | |
Samoan | vaveao. (various references) | |
Scottish | fàir. (various references) | |
Sepedi | masa. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zora (aurora, dayspring, morn, prime), svitanje (daybreak, dayspring, morn), svanuti, svanuće (daybreak), razdaniti se. (various references) | |
Shona | -edza (to dawn). (various references) | |
Sicilian | arba (to dawn). (various references) | |
Spanish | amanecer (Aurora, daybreak), alba (Alb, daybreak). (various references) | |
Swazi | kû-sá (to dawn). (various references) | |
Swedish | gryning (cockcrow, daybreak, day-break, daylight, light), gry (break, grit), daggryning (daybreak), dagas. (various references) | |
Tahitian | 'a'ahiata (before dawn). (various references) | |
Turkish | uyanma (awakening, renaissance, shake up, waking up), tan (Aurora, daybreak, sunglow, twilight), ortaya çıkma (appearance, arrival, emanation), gün ağarmak, belirmek (appear, become clear), başlangıç (approach, beginning, big bang, commencement, commencing, cradle, departure, doorway, early, elementary, exordium, first, go off, inception, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, introduction, lead off, morning, off, onset, origin, outset, preamble, preliminary, prelude, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, push off, setout, start, starting, take off, toe-hold), aydınlanmak (become clear, brighten, clarify, clear up, illuminate, light, light up, lighten), şafak vakti (at dawn), şafak sökmek, şafak (break of day, daybreak, daylight, first light, sunglow). (various references) | |
Turkmen | daс atmak, daс, sдher, яagtylmak (brighten). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | світати, світанок (cockcrow, dawning, day-break, daylight, day-spring, youth), розвиднятися, ранкова зоря (day star, morning, phosphor, phosphorus, sunrise, sun-up), освітлюватися (defecate, light), з'являтися (appear, arise, come, emerge, ghost, make an appearance, present oneself, show up, walk), зародок (corcle, egg, embryo, fetus, germ, nucleus, primordium), початок (authorship, beginning, breaking, commencement, cradle, dawning, day-spring, first, inception, incipience, morning, mother, onset, opening, origin, original, origination, outset, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, set out, start, starting, womb), починатися (commence, get going, start, teethe). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự hé rạng, rạng đông (break, day-spring), bình minh (dawning, daylight, sunrise). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwawr (bloom, daybreak, hue, nuance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | eos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dilucesceret, diluculo, diluculum, diluxisset, nascantur, nascatur, nascebantur, nascemini, nascendi, nascentia, nascentur, nascerentur, nascetur, nasci, nascitur, nascuntur, nata, natae, nataeque, natas, natham, nati, natique, natis, nato, natorum, natos, natosque, natu, natum, natura, naturae, naturam, naturas, natus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ushånghem, ushahinâi. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 33 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Acri de ou emellen hmera ginesqai parekalei o pauloV apantaV metalabein trofhV legwn tessareskaidekathn shmeron hmeran prosdokwnteV asitoi diateleite mhden proslabomenoi |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et cum lux inciperet fieri rogabat Paulus omnes sumere cibum dicens quartadecima hodie die expectantes ieiuni permanetis nihil accipientes |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne the dai was come, Poul preiede alle men to take mete, and seide, The fourtenthe dai this dai ye `abiden, and dwellen fastinge, and taken no thing. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And in ye meane tyme betwixt that and daye Paul besought them all to take meate sayinge: this is ye fourtenthe daye that ye have taried and continued fastynge receavinge nothinge at all. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried, and continued fasting, having taken nothing. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when dawn was near, Paul gave them all orders to take food, saying, This is the fourteenth day you have been waiting and taking no food. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 33 |
| Albanian | Dhe në pritje që të bëhej ditë, Pali i nxiti të gjithë të hanin diçka, duke thënë: ''Sot është e katërmbëdhjeta ditë që, duke pritur, jeni të uritur, pa ngrënë asgjë. |
| Cebuano | Ug sa hapit na mobanagbanag ang adlaw, si Pablo miagda kanilang tanan sa pagkaon, nga nag-ingon, "Karon mao na ang ikanapulog-upat ka adlaw sa inyong pagpinaabut ug sa pagpuasa, sanglit wala man kamoy nakaon nga bisan unsa. |
| Croatian | Do pred svanuæe nutkao je Pavao sve da uzmu hrane: "Èetrnaesti je danas dan, reèe, što bez jela èekate, ništa ne okusivši. |
| Danish | Men indtil det vilde dages, formanede Paulus alle til at tage Næring til sig og sagde: "Det er i Dag den fjortende Dag, I have ventet og tilbragt uden at spise og intet taget til eder. |
| Dutch | En ondertussen dat het dag zou worden, vermaande Paulus hen allen, dat zij zouden spijze nemen, en zeide: Het is heden de veertiende dag, dat gij verwachtende blijft zonder eten, en niets hebt genomen. |
| Finnish | Vähää ennen päivän tuloa Paavali kehoitti kaikkia nauttimaan ruokaa, sanoen: "Tänään olette jo neljättätoista päivää odottaneet ja olleet syömättä ettekä ole mitään ravintoa ottaneet. |
| French | Avant que le jour parût, Paul exhorta tout le monde à prendre de la nourriture, disant: C`est aujourd`hui le quatorzième jour que vous êtes dans l`attente et que vous persistez à vous abstenir de manger. |
| German | Und da es anfing licht zu werden, ermahnte sie Paulus alle, daß sie Speise nähmen, und sprach: Es ist heute der vierzehnte Tag, daß ihr wartet und ungegessen geblieben seid und habt nichts zu euch genommen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pada waktu sebelum fajar, Paulus menganjurkan supaya mereka semua makan. Paulus berkata, "Sudah empat belas hari lamanya Saudara semuanya hanya menunggu-nunggu saja dalam keadaan tegang dan tidak makan apa-apa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tatkala hari hendak siang, maka Paulus pun mengajak sekalian orang makan sambil katanya, "Inilah hari yang keempat belas Tuan-tuan ternanti-nanti, senantiasa berlapar dengan tiada makan barang sesuatu pun. |
| Maori | A i te mea meake puao te ra, ka tohe a Paora ki a ratou katoa kia kai, ka mea, Ko te tekau ma wha tenei o nga ra e tatari nei koutou, e nohopuku nei, te o te kai. |
| Norwegian | Da det nu led mot dag, bad Paulus alle ta føde til sig, og han sa: Dette er nu den fjortende dag at I venter og lar være å ete og ikke tar noget til eder. |
| Portuguese | Enquanto amanhecia, Paulo rogava a todos que comessem alguma coisa, dizendo: É já hoje o décimo quarto dia que esperais e permaneceis em jejum, não havendo provado coisa alguma. |
| Rumanian | Knainte de ziuq, Pavel a rugat pe toyi sq mqnknce, wi a zis: ,,Astqzi sknt patrusprezece zile, decknd stayi mereu de veghe, wi n`ayi luat nimic de mkncare kn gurq. |
| Russian | рЕТЕД ОБУФХРМЕОЙЕН ДОС рБЧЕМ ХЗПЧБТЙЧБМ ЧУЕИ РТЙОСФШ РЙЭХ, ЗПЧПТС: УЕЗПДОС ЮЕФЩТОБДГБФЩК ДЕОШ, ЛБЛ ЧЩ, Ч ПЦЙДБОЙЙ, ПУФБЕФЕУШ ВЕЪ РЙЭЙ, ОЕ ЧЛХЫБС ОЙЮЕЗП. |
| Swahili | Karibu na alfajiri, Paulo aliwahimiza wote wale chakula: "Kwa siku kumi na nne sasa mmekuwa katika mashaka na bila kula; hamjala kitu chochote. |
| Swedish | Medan det nu höll på att dagas, uppmanade Paulus alla att taga sig mat och sade: "Det är i dag fjorton dagar som I haven väntat och förblivit fastande, utan att förtära något. |
| Uma | Neo' mehupa' -mi eo, na'uli' -mi Paulus mpo'uli' -raka: "Kana ngkoni' omea-koi! Hampulu' opo' eo-mi, hangaa mpopea napa to jadi' -damo-koi. Uma-koi ngkoni'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dawn": dawned, dawning, dawnlike, dawns. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dawn": predawn. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dawn": predawns. (additional references) | |
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"Dawn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cawn, Daan, Daawa, dain, dann, daon, daun, daw, dawa, dawb, dawd, Dawen, dawg, dawl, dawm, Dawnay, Dawne, dawnt, Dawny, daws, dawt, daxn, dayn, dbw, dewan, dewn, Dhawan, diwa, Diwan, diwn, Djawa, dkw, dowan, downm, dowwnn, dsw, Duwynt, dw, Dwam, Dwan, Ndaw, tawn, vawn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dawn" (pronounced dô"n) |
| 3 | d ô" n | predawn. |
| 2 | -ô" n | fawn, brawn, drawn, exon, gone, lawn, overdrawn, pawn, prawn, redrawn, Shawn, undergone, withdrawn, yawn. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wand. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-n-w" | |
-1 letter: and, awn, daw, naw, wad, wan. | |
-2 letters: ad, an, aw, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-n-w" | |
+1 letter: adown, awned, dawen, dawns, dewan, diwan, drawn, wands, waned. | |
+2 letters: dawing, dawned, deewan, dewans, diwans, fawned, gnawed, inward, onward, pawned, snawed, unawed, undraw, wading, wander, wandle, wanned, wanted, warden, warned, weaned, yawned. | |
+3 letters: cowhand, dawning, dawting, deewans, drawing, endways, gowaned, handsaw, indrawn, inwards, lowland, manward, onwards, prawned, predawn, redrawn, spawned, sunward, swanked, swanned, twanged, undrawn, undraws, unsawed, unwaxed, vanward, wadding, wagoned, wakanda, wakened, wanders, wangled, wardens, warding, weasand, weazand, wessand, wetland, whanged, windage, windbag, windway, womaned, woodman. | |
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