Usually means: Early light mistaken for sunrise.
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  1. false dawn: Merriam-Webster
  2. false dawn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. false dawn: Collins English Dictionary
  4. false dawn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. false dawn: Wiktionary
  6. false dawn: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. false dawn: Dictionary.com
  8. False Dawn (short story), False dawn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. false dawn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. false dawn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Definitions from Wiktionary (false dawn)

noun:  A thin ambient light which precedes true dawn, typically by around an hour, in certain parts of the world.
noun:  (figuratively) Something engendering premature hope; a promising sign which in fact leads to nothing.

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