dawn

Synonyms

actualize, appear, arise, begin, break, commence, engender, form, materialize, originate, set in, spring, start;

Antonyms

cease, end, stop;

Near Antonyms

conclude, desist, discontinue, finish, halt, quit, terminate;

disappear, dissolve, evaporate, vanish;

depart, die, expire, pass away, perish;

Related Words

be, breathe, exist, live, subsist;

arrive, come on, emerge;

coalesce, cohere, shape (up);

continue, endure, last, persist, survive;

Synonyms

alpha, baseline, beginning, birth, commencement, day one, genesis, get-go (also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, threshold;

Antonyms

close, conclusion, end, ending, omega;

Near Antonyms

cessation, closing, closure, completion, finale, finish, period, stop, termination, windup;

Related Words

drawing board, first base, ground zero, square one;

creation, founding, inauguration, initiation, institution, origination;

cradle, fountain, fountainhead, germ, origin, root, seedbed, source, spring, well, wellspring;

dawning, opening;

advent, appearance, arrival, debut (also début), emergence;

childhood, infancy, youth;