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DAWNING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The first light of day
Example:
they talked until morning
Synonyms:
aurora; break of day; break of the day; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; daybreak; dayspring; first light; morning; sunrise; sunup
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("dawning" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
Derivation:
dawn (become light)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb dawn
