Synonyms for DAWN
dɔndawn

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1. dawnnoun

   Synonyms:
   beginning, sunup, daybreak, sunrise, start, onset

   Antonyms:
   dusk

2. dawnnoun

   The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.

   Before a new day dawns.

   Synonyms:
   onset, sunrise, start, beginning, sunup, daybreak

   Antonyms:
   dusk

3. dawnnoun

   To start to appear or be realized.

   I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns.

   Synonyms:
   beginning, sunup, start, daybreak, sunrise, onset

   Antonyms:
   dusk

4. dawnnoun

   The time when the sun rises.

   She rose before dawn to meet the train.

   Synonyms:
   sunup, daybreak, start, onset, sunrise, beginning

   Antonyms:
   dusk

5. dawnnoun

   The beginning.

   The dawn of civilisation.

   Synonyms:
   sunrise, onset, start, beginning, sunup, daybreak

   Antonyms:
   dusk

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1. dawn

   Synonyms:
   gleam, begin, appear, rise, open, break

   Antonyms:
   wane, set, sink, close, depart

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1. dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrownoun

   the first light of day

   "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"

   Synonyms:
   break of day, dayspring, good morning, break of the day, aurora, morn, sunup, first light, morning, morning time, forenoon, daybreak, sunrise, dawn, dawning, cockcrow

2. dawn, morningnoun

   the earliest period

   "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world"

   Synonyms:
   break of day, dayspring, good morning, break of the day, aurora, morn, sunup, first light, morning, morning time, forenoon, daybreak, sunrise, dawn, dawning, cockcrow

3. dawnverb

   an opening time period

   "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire"

   Synonyms:
   break of day, dayspring, break of the day, aurora, sunup, first light, morning, daybreak, sunrise, dawning, cockcrow

4. click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into placeverb

   become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

   "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"

   Synonyms:
   pass over, put over, get over, flick, wrap up, come through, percolate, contact, pervade, cut across, infiltrate, bottom, snap, finish up, tick, reach, interpenetrate, permeate, get hold of, finish off, polish off, penetrate, cut through, mop up, fall into place, cluck, filter, come home, while away, perforate, traverse, dawn, click, diffuse, sink in, clear up, cover, cross, riddle, get across, fathom, chatter, imbue, get through, track, clack

5. dawnverb

   appear or develop

   "The age of computers had dawned"

   Synonyms:
   sink in, get through, penetrate, get across, fall into place, click, come home

6. dawnverb

   become light

   "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"

   Synonyms:
   sink in, get through, penetrate, get across, fall into place, click, come home

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1. dawnverb

   Synonyms:
   break, begin to be light, grow light

2. dawnverb

   Synonyms:
   appear, open, begin to appear

3. dawnnoun

   Synonyms:
   cockcrowing, DAYBREAK, dayspring, dawning, break of day

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1. dawnnoun

   Synonyms:
   daybreak, aurora, dayspring, sunrise

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1. List of paraphrases for "dawn":

   daybreak, detonated, sunrise, exploded, dawning, sunup, aurore, al-fajr, eve, alba, liming, fajr, blew, shuguang, sephton, morning, beginning, threshold, cusp, aurora, early, verge

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1. DAWN

   Synonyms:
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1. Deborah Moore:

   Roger Moore favorite thing to do with us when we were young was to take us swimming, especially when we went out to Italy, where my mother was from, it was right by the sea, so every morning we ’d get up at the crack of dawn together and go out for a swim. It was wonderful.

2. Kristen Donathan:

   Go to Walmart and get you a foaming hand soap bottle, you’re going to fill it a fourth of the way full of Dawn dish soap, add water, top it off with alcohol. Gently mix it.

3. Donna Rotunno:

   I saw( Vance's statement) and I think that it's frightening to think about a new dawn in the criminal justice system that doesn't have changes.

4. J. Michael Straczynski:

   It was the dawn of the third age of mankind…

5. Ilham Aliyev:

   This referendum will undoubtedly mark the dawn of a new era in the history of our sister country and will strengthen the role and place of stable, strong Turkey in the international arena.