| dawn | | |
| n. (time) | 1. aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup | the first light of day.; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" |
| ~ time of day, hour | clock time.; "the hour is getting late" |
| n. (event) | 2. dawn, morning | the earliest period.; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" |
| ~ start | the beginning of anything.; "it was off to a good start" |
| n. (time) | 3. dawn | an opening time period.; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire" |
| ~ figure of speech, trope, image, figure | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. |
| ~ period, period of time, time period | an amount of time.; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. click, come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in | become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions.; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" |
| ~ understand | know and comprehend the nature or meaning of.; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" |
| v. (stative) | 5. dawn | appear or develop.; "The age of computers had dawned" |
| ~ begin, start | have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense.; "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250,000" |
| v. (change) | 6. dawn | become light.; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
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