dawn

dawn is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
2. intransitive verb. To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
3. noun. The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
4. noun. First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
5. noun. the earliest period

   "the dawn of civilization"

   "the morning of the world"

   Synonyms: morning

6. noun. the first light of day

   "we got up before dawn"

   "they talked until morning"

   Synonyms: aurora, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, morning, sunrise, sunup

7. noun. an opening time period

   "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire"

8. verb. become light

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

9. verb. become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

   "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"

   "she was penetrated with sorrow"

   Synonyms: click, penetrate

10. verb. appear or develop

    "The age of computers had dawned"

Synonyms

morning, aurora, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, click, penetrate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dawn:

wand

Common word forms

dawns, dawned, dawning

Words from these letters

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