Entry Word: dawn

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance <we stayed up talking until dawn>

Synonyms aurora, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, daylight, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup

Related Words day, daytime, light; twilight; forenoon

Near Antonyms dark, darkness, night, nighttime; afternoon, dusk, evening, gloaming

Antonyms nightfall, sundown, sunset

2 the point at which something begins <the dawn of civilization> — see beginning