false dawn
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The moon was low down, and there was just the glimmer of the false dawn that comes about an hour before the real one."
- "As Congo nears the 50th anniversary of its independence from Belgium on June 30th, Mr Chebeya’s murky death suggests that 2006 was a false dawn."
- "This, it must be stressed, is not to mark Arsenal out as potential Premier League winners or acclaim them as the finished product - there have been false dawns before, under both current manager Mikel Arteta and his predecessor Unai Emery."
- "After decades of false dawns, the impending creation of Great British Railways, dovetailing with a new government and the need to address the climate crisis much more seriously, offers a new opportunity to create a viable plan for electrifying more of the British rail network."