Definitions for Dawn

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Dawn dawn

Spelling: [dawn]

IPA: /dɔn/

Dawn is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in Dawn (adnw).

Definitions for Dawn

noun

1. the first appearance of daylight in the morning:
2. the beginning or rise of anything; advent:
3. a female given name.

verb (used without object)

1. to begin to grow light in the morning:
2. to begin to open or develop.
3. to begin to be perceived (usually followed by on):

Origin of Dawn

before 1150; Middle English dawen (v.), Old English dagian, derivative of dæg day; akin to Old Norse daga, Middle Dutch, Middle Low German dagen, Old High German tagēn

Examples for Dawn

At the dawn of the morning he made his attack sharp, unexpected, decisive.

Do you think Beth knew what would happen if she stabbed dawn with those scissors?

Light of some sort began to dawn on the perplexed faces of the gentlemen.

But in another world, Beth stabs dawn and she is bleeding and none of those other cops are helping her get to a doctor.

Andy Serkis, dawn of the Planet of the Apes Do you want to be on the wrong side of history, Academy?

And yet, I am persuaded, a day will dawn when something will.

When Sidney saw the outline of the stable roof, she knew that it was dawn.

Shortly after dawn, there was another outbreak of deadly force.

The dawn was just showing over the mountains, and in Sils the cocks were crowing.

Emily Kinney told me that Beth and dawn understood and respected each other on a certain level.