dawn
/dɔn/ noun B2- The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
- The rising of the sun.
- The time when the sun rises. · She rose before dawn to meet the train.· The platoon braced itself for the dawn offensive.
- The earliest phase of something. · The dawn of civilization didn't imply twilight of barbarity.
Plural dawns
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Review your life, Albert; although it is only just beginning, did a lovely summer’s day ever dawn with greater purity than has marked the commencement of your career?
The eternal dawn, beyond a doubt,
For loosed till dawn are we.
The dawn was beginning to break when Mowgli went down the hillside alone, to meet those mysterious things that are called men.
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