dawn

1. 1.

   become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

   “It dawned on him that she had betrayed him”

   “she was penetrated with sorrow”

   Synonymsclickget throughcome homeget acrosssink inpenetratefall into place
2. 2.

   appear or develop

   “The age of computers had dawned”

   Broaderbegin
3. 3.

   become light

   “It started to dawn, and we had to get up”

   Broaderchange

Other forms of dawn

plural

dawns·

past tense

dawned·

present participle

dawning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dawn

What does dawn mean?

dawn means "the first light of day". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dawn?

dawn has 1 syllable: dawn. In IPA it is /ˈdɔn/.

What is another word for dawn?

Close synonyms include dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dawn a common word?

dawn is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dawn?

1 word rhymes with dawn. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.