dawn

Noun
  1. The first light of day (synset 115193837)
    "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"
    is a type of: hour, time of day - clock time
    same as: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup
  2. The earliest period (synset 107340708)
    "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world"
    is a type of: start - the beginning of anything
    same as: morning
  3. An opening time period (synset 115292774)
    "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire"
    domain usage: figure, figure of speech, image, trope - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
    is a type of: period, period of time, time period - an amount of time
Verb
  1. Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions (synset 200593150)
    "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"
    causes: understand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
    same as: click, come home, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in
  2. Appear or develop (synset 202615649)
    "The age of computers had dawned"
    is a type of: begin, start - have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
  3. Become light (synset 200529916)
    "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"
    is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature

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