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dawn·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrownoun

    the first light of day

    "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"

Wiktionary

  1. dawningnoun

    Dawn.

  2. dawningnoun

    The first beginnings of something.

  3. Etymology: An alteration of dawing, under the influence of Scandinavian cognates (compare Swedish, Danish dagning).

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  1. dawning

    Dawning refers to the beginning or first appearance of something such as an idea, understanding, or a phenomenon. It's often used in the context of the start of a new day or the early stages of an event.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dawning

    of Dawn

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dawning in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dawning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of dawning in a Sentence

  1. Isaac Newton:

    I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

  2. Omar Khayyam:

    When morning silvers the dark firmament, Why shrills the bird of dawning his lament? It is to show in dawn?s bright looking-glass How of thy careless life a night is spent.

  3. Doug Porter:

    The timing of those moves may have been at least partly driven by the dawning realization that not only will the Bank of Canada not move to dampen housing with rate hikes anytime soon, there is the very real risk that they could fuel it further with yet more rate cuts.

  4. Aidan Meller:

    The Ai-Da project was developed to address the debate over the ethics of further developing AI to imitate humans and human behavior, it's finally dawning on us all that technology is having a major impact on all aspects of life and we're seeking to understand just how much this technology can do and what it can teach us about ourselves.

  5. Jeff Davidson:

    How many times in the last year have you gotten up before the sun makes its way over that distant eastern horizon and witnessed the actual dawning of a new day? It is illuminating. It is inspiring. It is breathtaking.

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