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"DAWNS" is a plural of: dawn. |
Date "DAWNS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: DAWNS |
| Non-English Usage: "DAWNS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Welsh (ball, dance). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Rimbaud | But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The day after a battle dawns upon naked corpses. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Only that day dawns to which we are awake. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "DAWNS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "DAWNS" is used about 55 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 (plural) | 72.73% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 27.27% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 55 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DAWNS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | graut, dämmert. (various references) | ||||
Greek | χαράζω (carve, dawn, engrave, inscribe). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 年"まる (the New Year dawns), 年明ける (the New Year dawns). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | としあらたまる (the New Year dawns), としあける (the New Year dawns). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | awnsday | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DAWNS": predawns. (additional references) | |
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"DAWNS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adaws, daens, dains, Danns, Dannz, dans, D'ans, danz, Dawen, dawes, Dawne, dawnt, Dawny, daws, dawts, dawys, ddawns, dewans, diwans, diwn, dpans, Duwynt, dwals, Dwan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DAWNS" (pronounced dô"nz) |
| 3 | -ô" n z | bonnes, lawns, pawns, prawns, yawns. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wands. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-n-s-w" | |
-1 letter: ands, awns, dawn, daws, sand, sawn, snaw, swan, wads, wand, wans. | |
-2 letters: ads, and, awn, daw, naw, sad, saw, wad, wan, was. | |
-3 letters: ad, an, as, aw, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-n-s-w" | |
+1 letter: dewans, diwans, snawed. | |
+2 letters: deewans, endways, handsaw, inwards, onwards, spawned, sunward, swanked, swanned, undraws, unsawed, wanders, wardens, weasand, wessand. | |
+3 letters: advowson, answered, bendways, cowhands, downcast, downwash, drawings, handsaws, handsewn, lowlands, manwards, misdrawn, nowadays, predawns, sandwich, sandworm, sandwort, snapweed, snowland, sunwards, swanherd, swarding, swordman, unswayed, unwashed, unwasted, waddings, wakandas, weasands, weazands, wessands, wetlands, windages, windbags, windlass, windways, woodsman. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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