Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
dawn (verb)intransitive verb
1.
to begin to grow light as the sun rises
2.
to begin to appear or develop
3.
to begin to be perceived or understood - the truth finally dawned on us
1.
the first appearance of light in the morning followed by sunrise
2.
- beginning the dawn of the space age
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
dawn (noun)1.
the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance
SYNONIMS:
aurora, cockcrow, dawning, day, daybreak, daylight, light, morn, morning, sun, sunrise, sunupRELATED WORDS:
daytime; forenoonNEAR ANTONYMS:
dark, darkness, midnight, night, nighttime; afternoon, midday; dusk, evening, eventide, gloaming, twilight2.
the point at which something begins
SYNONIMS:
alpha, baseline, birth, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go ( git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, thresholdRELATED WORDS:
drawing board, first base, ground zero, square one; creation, founding, inauguration, initiation, institution, origination; cradle, fountain, fountainhead, germ, origin, root, seedbed, source, spring, well, wellspring; dawning, opening; advent, appearance, arrival, debut ( début), emergence; childhood, infancy, youthNEAR ANTONYMS:
cessation, closing, closure, completion, finale, finish, period, stop, termination, windupto come into existence
SYNONIMS:
actualize, appear, arise, break, commence, dawn, engender, form, materialize, originate, set in, spring, startRELATED WORDS:
be, breathe, exist, live, subsist; arrive, come on, emerge; coalesce, cohere, shape (up); continue, endure, last, persist, surviveNEAR ANTONYMS:
conclude, desist, discontinue, finish, halt, quit, terminate; disappear, dissolve, evaporate, vanish; depart, die, expire, pass away, perishto enter the mind of
SYNONIMS:
come (to), cross, dawn (on), strikeRELATED WORDS:
recall, recollect, remember, reminisce; con, learn, memorize; appear, arrive, emerge, materializeNEAR ANTONYMS:
forget, unlearn; disregard, ignore, neglect, overlook