dawnとは

発音

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /doːn/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /dɔːn/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /dɔn/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /dɑn/
• 韻: -ɔːn

動詞

dawn (三人称単数 現在形 dawns, 現在分詞 dawning, 過去形および過去分詞形 dawned)

1. (intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight.

   A new day dawns.

   • Bible, Matthew xxviii. 1

     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.

2. (intransitive) To start to appear or be realized.

   I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     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.

3. (intransitive) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden

     in dawning youth

   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     when life awakes, and dawns at every line

派生語

• dawn on

名詞

dawn (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 dawns)

1. (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
2. (countable) The rising of the sun.
3. (uncountable) The time when the sun rises.

   She rose before dawn to meet the train.

4. (uncountable) The beginning.
   • 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).

   the dawn of civilization

同意語

• (rising of the sun): break of dawn, dayspring, sunrise
• (time when the sun rises): break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, dayspring, sunrise, sunup
• (beginning): beginning, onset, start

反意語

• dusk

上位語

• twilight

下位語

• astronomical dawn
• civil dawn
• nautical dawn

派生語

• crack of dawn
• dawn chorus
• it is always darkest before the dawn

関連する語

• dawning

参考

• crepuscular

参考

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, evening, dusk, night, midnight

アナグラム

• wand