Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Dawn"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dawn \Dawn\, n.
1. The break of day; the first appearance of light in the
morning; show of approaching sunrise.
And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve.
--Thomson.
No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk,
no proper time of day. --Hood.
2. First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning;
rise. ``The dawn of time.'' --Thomson.
These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of
serenity over the soul. --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dawn \Dawn\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dawned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dawning}.] [OE. dawnen, dawen, dagen, daien, AS. dagian to
become day, to dawn, fr. d[ae]g day; akin to D. dagen, G.
tagen, Icel. daga, Dan. dages, Sw. dagas. See {Day}.
[root]71.]
1. To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to
break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning
dawns.
In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn
toward the first day of the week, came Mary
Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher. --Matt.
xxviii. 1.
2. To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
``In dawning youth.'' --Dryden.
When life awakes, and dawns at every line. --Pope.
Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid. --Heber,
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dawn
n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they
talked until morning" [syn: {dawning}, {morning}, {aurora},
{first light}, {daybreak}, {break of day}, {break of
the day}, {dayspring}, {sunrise}, {sunup}, {cockcrow}]
[ant: {sunset}]
2: the earliest period: "the dawn of civilization"; "the
morning of the world" [syn: {morning}]
3: an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman
Empire"
v 1: become clear suddenly; "It dawned on him that she had
betrayed him" [syn: {click}, {get through}, {come home},
{get across}, {sink in}, {penetrate}, {fall into place}]
2: appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned"
3: become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"
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