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plural of dawn
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1
the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance
- we stayed up talking until dawn
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2
the point at which something begins
- the dawn of civilization
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- alphas,
- baselines,
- beginnings,
- births,
- commencements,
- day ones,
- geneses,
- get-goes
- (also git-goes),
- inceptions,
- incipiences,
- incipiencies,
- kickoffs,
- launches,
- mornings,
- nascences,
- nascencies,
- onsets,
- outsets,
- starts,
- thresholds
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- cradles,
- fountainheads,
- fountains,
- germs,
- origins,
- roots,
- seedbeds,
- sources,
- springs,
- wells,
- wellsprings
- advents,
- appearances,
- arrivals,
- debuts
- (also débuts),
- emergences
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dawns
verb
present tense third-person singular of dawn
Synonyms & Antonyms of dawns (Entry 2 of 2)
to come into existence
- a smile dawned on his face as he got the joke
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“Dawns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dawns. Accessed 27 Oct. 2021.
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