transcription, транскрипция: [ dɔ:n ]
( dawns, dawning, dawned)
1.
Dawn is the time of day when light first appears in the sky, just before the sun rises.
Nancy woke at dawn.
N-VAR
2.
The dawn of a period of time or a situation is the beginning of it. ( LITERARY )
...the dawn of the radio age.
N-SING : usu the N of n
3.
If something is dawning , it is beginning to develop or come into existence. ( WRITTEN )
Throughout Europe a new railway age, that of the high-speed train, has dawned...
VERB : V
• dawn‧ing
...the dawning of the space age...
N-SING : oft the
4.
When you say that a particular day dawned , you mean it arrived or began, usually when it became light. ( WRITTEN )
When the great day dawned, the first concern was the weather...
VERB : V
5.
at the crack of dawn: see crack