dawn
/doːn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A new day dawns."
- "In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene[…]to see the sepulchre."
- "I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him."
- "The realization dawned on him that few would pass that final exam."
- "Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited."
- "when life awakes, and dawns at every line"
Etymology
From Middle English dawnen, either a back-formation from dawnynge or a modification of dawen (“to dawn”) after it. The noun is from the verb.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *dʰegʷʰ-, dawnen
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /doːn/
- British English: /dɔːn/