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Definition of dawn verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

dawn

verb
 
/dɔːn/
 
/dɔːn/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they dawn
 
/dɔːn/
 
/dɔːn/
he / she / it dawns
 
/dɔːnz/
 
/dɔːnz/
past simple dawned
 
/dɔːnd/
 
/dɔːnd/
past participle dawned
 
/dɔːnd/
 
/dɔːnd/
-ing form dawning
 
/ˈdɔːnɪŋ/
 
/ˈdɔːnɪŋ/
Idioms Phrasal Verbs
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  1. [intransitive] (of a day or a period of time) to begin
    • The following morning dawned bright and warm.
    • A new technological age had dawned.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryphrases
    • dawn bright, clear, cold, sunny, etc.
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  2. [intransitive] to become obvious or easy to understand
    • Slowly the awful truth dawned.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • suddenly
    • gradually
    • slowly
    verb + dawn
    • begin to
    preposition
    • on
    See full entry
  3. Word Originlate 15th cent. (as a verb): back-formation from Middle English dawning alteration of earlier dawing, from Old English dagian ‘to dawn’, of Germanic origin.
Idioms
(the) light dawned (on somebody)
  1. somebody suddenly understood or began to understand something
    • I puzzled over the problem for ages before the light suddenly dawned.
See dawn in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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