Tra từ dawn - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

dawn [dawn dawns dawned dawning] noun, verb BrE [dɔːn] NAmE [dɔːn]
noun
1. uncountable, countable the time of day when light first appears
Syn: ↑daybreak, Syn: ↑sunrise
•They start work at dawn.
•It's almost dawn.
•We arrived in Sydney as dawn broke (= as the first light could be seen).
•I woke up just before dawn.
•summer's early dawns
•He works from dawn till dusk (= from morning till night).
•The plane took off, leaving London behind in a blue-grey dawn.
compare ↑dusk
2. singular ~ (of sth) the beginning or first signs of sth
•the dawn of civilization/time/history
•Peace marked a new dawn in the country's history.
•the dawn of a golden age in European art
see break of day/dawn at ↑break _n., at the crack of dawn at ↑crack _n.

Word Origin:
late 15th cent. (as a verb): back-formation from Middle English dawning alteration of earlier dawing, from Old English dagian ‘to dawn’, of Germanic origin.

Thesaurus:
dawn noun U, C
•The plane arrived in Sydney at dawn.
sunrise • • first light • • daybreak • • first thing •
Opp: dusk
at/before/since/by/until/till dawn/sunrise/first light/daybreak

Example Bank:
•Ammunition was seized during a dawn raid on the house.
•Dawn was breaking over the valley.
•He always got up to greet the dawn.
•He works from dawn to dusk, and often well into the night.
•Let's think back to the dawn of time.
•That morning, she rose at dawn.
•The dawn chorus woke Robyn at five.
•The dawn chorus= birds singing woke Robyn at five.
•This appointment marked the dawn of a productive era in her scientific career.
•This sudden success may prove to be a false dawn.
•We are seeing the dawn of a new era.
•Be prepared for cold nights and foggy dawns in the mountains next week.
•He works from dawn till dusk.
•It's almost dawn.
•Peace marked a new dawn in the country's history.
•She awoke to another glorious dawn.
•She's always up at the crack of dawn.
•That's been going on since the dawn of civilization.
•There was talk of the dawn of a golden age in European art.
•They start work at dawn.
•We arrived in Sydney as dawn broke.
Derived: ↑dawn on somebody

verb
1. intransitive (of a day or a period of time)to begin
•The following morning dawned bright and warm.
•A new technological age had dawned.
2. intransitive to become obvious or easy to understand
•Slowly the awful truth dawned.
see the light dawned (on sb) at ↑light _n.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
late 15th cent. (as a verb): back-formation from Middle English dawning alteration of earlier dawing, from Old English dagian ‘to dawn’, of Germanic origin.

Example Bank:
•It slowly dawned on me that he might have been mistaken.
•It was beginning to dawn on her that she had been fooled.
•The day dawned bright and sunny.
•The dreadful truth finally dawned on me.