To begin to brighten with daylight.
A new day dawns.
To start to appear or become obvious.
I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.
To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
when life awakes, and dawns at every line
A female given name from English sometimes given to a girl born at that time of day.
"Thomas, if it's a boy," she said, "after my uncle. But if it's a girl I'd like something fancy for a first name." "What about Dawn?" she said. "I like the sound of Dawn. Then Mary for a second name. Dawn Mary Parker, it sounds sweet."
From Middle English dawnen, either a back-formation from dawnynge or a modification of dawen (“to dawn”) after it. The noun is from the verb.
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The time when the sun rises.
She rose before dawn to meet the train.