Definition for Dawning:

• First appearance of anything, as the day, reason, intellectual powers.

Synonyms for Dawning:

• adj.

  •originating (adjective)
  • authored,
  • incepted.

• n.

  •
  • start.
  •aurora (noun)
  • aurora.
  •beginning (noun)
  • opener,
  • blastoff,
  • incipiency,
  • day one,
  • point of departure,
  • leadoff,
  • infancy,
  • birth,
  • initiation,
  • roots,
  • incipience,
  • blastoffs,
  • starting point,
  • outset,
  • openers,
  • rudiment.
  •break of day (noun)
  • first brightening,
  • brightenings,
  • prime of the morning,
  • first flush of morning,
  • first flush of the morning,
  • peep of day.
  •break of the day (noun)
  • break of the day.
  •cockcrow (noun)
  • Cockcrowing.
  •commencement (noun)
  • curtainraiser,
  • tee offs,
  • curtainraisers.
  •dawn (noun)
  • morning,
  • daylight.
  •dawning (noun)
  • break of day.
  •daybreak (noun)
  • daysprings.
  •first light (noun)
  • cocklight,
  • Day-peep,
  • half-light,
  • dawnlight,
  • flush of the morning.
  •genesis (noun)
  • engenderings.
  •origin (noun)
  • blast offs,
  • git goes,
  • embarkations.
  •origination (noun)
  • in novation,
  • in-novation,
  • in novations.
  •outset (noun)
  • primordium.
  •source (noun)
  • horse's mouths,
  • be getters,
  • be-getters,
  • well-springs,
  • in-formant,
  • well springs,
  • horse mouth,
  • be getter,
  • horse mouths,
  • horses mouths,
  • be-getter,
  • well spring,
  • in formants,
  • horses mouth,
  • in-formants,
  • in formant.
  •start (noun)
  • startoffs,
  • jump offs,
  • start-offs,
  • running starts,
  • start offs,
  • startoff,
  • jumpoff,
  • setting outs,
  • jumpoffs,
  • jump-offs.

• v.

  •beginning (verb)
  • emerging,
  • developing,
  • hatching,
  • Initiating,
  • Introducing,
  • Originating,
  • budding,
  • Inaugurating,
  • Conceiving,
  • undertaking,
  • sprouting,
  • Inducting,
  • Stemming,
  • Germinating,
  • Embarking,
  • Creating,
  • birthing,
  • starting,
  • Forming,
  • springing,
  • initializing,
  • Preparing,
  • Commencing.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • original.

Paraphrases for Dawning:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    dawn.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    beginning, daybreak, advent, sunrise, eve, start, threshold, onset.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Initiating, begining, breaking, Embarking, approaching, Throwing, shaping, rising, Booting, Lifting, beginning.

Antonyms for Dawning:

• n.

  • dawn
    sunset, darkness.
  • Other antonyms:
    dusk, dark, midnight, nighttime, midday, afternoon, night.

Dawning Sentence Examples:

• The winter was past and over, and the gold of the coming spring was already dawning.

• There was a gleam of wild, despairing terror in his eyes - revealing the dawning consciousness of approaching defeat, complete and terrible.

Homophones for Dawning:

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