Usually means: Sunrise marking the day's start.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. dawn: Merriam-Webster
  2. dawn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dawn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dawn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dawn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dawn, dawn: Wordnik
  7. dawn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dawn, dawn: Wiktionary
  9. dawn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dawn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dawn: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. DAWN: Dictionary.com
  13. dawn (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dawn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Dawn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dawn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dawn: Rhymezone
  19. dawn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dawn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dawn: FreeDictionary.org
  22. dawn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dawn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. dawn: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. dawn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dawn: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dawn: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dawn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DAWN: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DAWN: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. dawn: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Dawn: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Dawn)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To start to appear or be realized.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
▸ noun:  (countable) The rising of the sun.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The earliest phase of something.
▸ noun:  A female given name from English sometimes given to a girl born at that time of day.

Similar:
sunup, sunrise, sink in, penetrate, fall into place, daybreak, get through, first light, get across, break of day, more...

Opposite:
dusk, sunset, twilight, nightfall, evening

Types:
sunrise, sunset, dusk, more...

Phrases:
dawn on, new dawn, false dawn, gray dawn, dawn patrol, more...

Adjectives:
early, first, new, gray, pre, grey, false, very, cold, rosy, day

Colors:
    peach,     coral,     apricot,     salmon,     rose, more...


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Similar:
sunup, sunrise, sink in, penetrate, fall into place, daybreak, get through, first light, get across, break of day, more...

Opposite:
dusk, sunset, twilight, nightfall, evening

Types:
sunrise, sunset, dusk, more...

Phrases:
dawn on, new dawn, false dawn, gray dawn, dawn patrol, dawn chorus, dawn horse, dawn raid, dawn redwood, Dawn phenomenon, dawn raids, Dawn Powell, Dawn Fraser, dawn redwoods, dawn patrols, dawn breakers, more...

Adjectives:
early, first, new, gray, pre, grey, false, very, cold, rosy, day

Colors:
    peach,     coral,     apricot,     salmon,     rose, more...



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