dawning
[noun]
Synonyms: dawn, aurora, cockcrow, cockcrowing, daybreak, daylight, light, morn, morning, sunrise, beginning, alpha, commencement, genesis, onset, opening, outset, outstart, start

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Antonyms: sunset

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dawning noun. ['dɔ:nɪŋ] ME.
[Alt. of DAWING after Scandinavian (Old Swedish daghning, Swedish, Danish dagning).]
1. The beginning of daylight; daybreak, dawn; transf. the east. Now chiefly poet. ME.
■ C. Kingsley Oh sing, and wake the dawning.

2. fig. The first gleam, the appearance, the beginning, (of something). E17.
■ W. H. Prescott The dawnings of a literary culture.

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