Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive 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.
- 2intransitive verb
To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
- 3noun
The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
- 4noun
First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
- 5noun
the earliest period
"the dawn of civilization"
"the morning of the world"
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- 6noun
the first light of day
"we got up before dawn"
"they talked until morning"
- 7noun
an opening time period
"it was the dawn of the Roman Empire"
- 8verb
become light
"It started to dawn, and we had to get up"
- 9verb
become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
"It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"
"she was penetrated with sorrow"
- 10verb
appear or develop
"The age of computers had dawned"
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