dawn
Other forms: dawned; dawning; dawns
The noun dawn refers to the first light of day, or the first time period, like the dawn of a new era, which occurs when a new president takes office.
Not just the beginning of a day, the noun dawn can refer to any beginning, like the dawn of the Internet era. As a verb, dawn can mean "become light" or "become clear," like when it dawns on you that you left an important paper at home today. In that case, you can suddenly see what you did wrong, like at the dawn of a new day, when it is no longer dark and you can see, literally.
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the first light of day“we got up before dawn”synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup
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the earliest period
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an opening time period
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become light“It started to dawn, and we had to get up”type of:changeundergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
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appear or develop
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become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions“It dawned on him that she had betrayed him”synonyms: click, come home, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in
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Vocabulary lists containing dawn
People's first names have meaning in the sense that, when one is chosen from thousands of possibilities, it's usually picked because it has some special significance. But these names have another kind of meaning — they're also words that you can look up in the dictionary and use in other senses, beyond just what you've decided to call your pet parakeet or your first child.
Vocabulary from "Beowulf" (translated by by Gummere).
