dawning

Other forms of dawning

plural

dawnings·

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 dawning

What does dawning mean?

dawning means "the first light of day".

How many syllables are in dawning?

dawning has 2 syllables: daw-ning. The stress falls on "daw". In IPA it is /ˈdɔnɪŋ/.

What is another word for dawning?

Close synonyms include dawn, 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 dawning a common word?

dawning is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.