Definition of Dawn

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Definition of Dawn

Dawn

To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.

First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.

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Dawn Quotations

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
Jim Rohn

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Emily Dickinson

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
Saul Alinsky

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John Steinbeck

Dawn Translations

dawn in Danish is daggry
dawn in Dutch is aurora, morgenlicht, morgenrood
dawn in Finnish is aamurusko
dawn in Latin is diluculo
dawn in Norwegian is daggry
dawn in Portuguese is alvorecer
dawn in Spanish is creusculo, atardecer, amanecer, albor, alba
dawn in Swedish is gry, gryning, daggryning, dagas

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