| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  dôn |
| NOUN: | 1. The time each morning at which daylight first begins. 2. A first appearance; a beginning: the dawn of history. See synonyms at beginning. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: dawned, dawn·ing, dawns
1. To begin to become light in the morning. 2. To begin to appear or develop; emerge. 3. To begin to be perceived or understood: Realization of the danger soon dawned on us. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Middle English daunen, to dawn, probably a back-formation from dauning, daybreak, alteration of dauing, from Old English dagung, from dagian, to dawn. See agh- in Appendix I.
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