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dawns

noun , plural of dawn

Synonyms and Antonyms of dawns

1 the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance

we stayed up talking until dawn

Synonyms of dawns

auroras (or aurorae), cockcrows, days, daybreaks, daylights, lights, morns, mornings, suns, sunrises, sunups

Words Related to dawns

Near Antonyms of dawns

darks, midnights, nights, nighttimes

afternoons, middays

dusks, evenings, eventides, gloamings, twilights

Antonyms of dawns

nightfalls, sundowns, sunsets

2 the point at which something begins

the dawn of civilization

Synonyms of dawns

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

Words Related to dawns

drawing boards, first bases, ground zeros, square ones

creations, inaugurations, initiations, institutions, originations

cradles, fountains, fountainheads, germs, origins, roots, seedbeds, sources, springs, wells, wellsprings

advents, appearances, arrivals, debuts (also débuts), emergences

childhoods, infancies, youths

Near Antonyms of dawns

cessations, closings, closures, completions, finales, finishes, periods, stops, terminations, windups

Antonyms of dawns

closes, conclusions, ends, endings, omegas

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