dawn
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(verb) become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up" |
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Related Words: change |
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(verb) appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned" |
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Related Words: begin, start |
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(noun) the earliest period: "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" |
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Synonyms: morning |
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Related Words: start |
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(noun) the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" |
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Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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Related Words: hour, time of day |
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(noun) an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire" |
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Related Words: amount of time, period, period of time, time period |
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(verb) become clear suddenly; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him" |
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Synonyms: click, come home, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
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