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dawn  (dawns plural & 3rd person present) (dawning present participle) (dawned past tense & past participle )
1  n-var Dawn is the time of day when light first appears in the sky, just before the sun rises. 
Nancy woke at dawn.  
2  n-sing The dawn of  a period of time or a situation is the beginning of it. 
LITERARY usu the N of n 
...the dawn of the radio age.  
3  verb 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...  V 
♦  dawning  n-sing oft the 
...the dawning of the space age...  
4  verb 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...  V 
5 
 →  at the crack of dawn 
 →  crack dawn on , dawn upon  phrasal verb If a fact or idea dawns on you, you realize it.  (=strike) 
It gradually dawned on me that I still had talent and ought to run again...  it V P n that 
Then the chilling truth dawned on Captain Gary Snavely.  V P n 



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