dawning

Meaning of dawning

noun
  1. dawn.
  2. the beginning or first appearance of something.
    the dawnings of civilization
adjective
  1. beginning to grow light.
    the dawning sky
  2. coming into existence.
    the dawning era of internet TV

Middle English: alteration of earlier dawing, from Old English dagian ‘to dawn’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dagen and German tagen, also to day.

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. (of a day) begin.
    Thursday dawned bright and sunny
  2. become evident to the mind; be perceived or understood.
    the awful truth was beginning to dawn on him

late 15th century (as a verb): back-formation from Middle English dawning.

Information about dawning

  • The plural form of dawning is: dawnings.
  • Languages ​​in which dawning is used:

    (Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of dawning

dawn-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • dawning is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

dawning synonyms

Meaning dawn:

dawn, morning, aurora, daybreak, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow

Meaning perform or undergo the first part of (an action or activity):

begin

Meaning move (a door or window) so as to leave a space allowing access and vision:

open

Meaning (of dawn or a day) begin as the sun rises:

break

Meaning (of a new development or product) come into existence or use:

arrive

Meaning move out of or away from something and become visible:

emerge

Meaning make or become lighter in weight, pressure, or severity:

lighten

Meaning make or become more light:

brighten

Meaning hit forcibly and deliberately with one's hand or a weapon or other implement:

strike

Meaning bring one's hand or a tool or weapon into contact with (someone or something) quickly and forcefully:

hit

dawning antonyms

Meaning come or bring to a final point; finish:

end

Words that rhyme with dawning

Chesaning, Harmaning, airplaning, aquaplaning, baning, beaning, begroaning, bemeaning, bemoaning, buccaning, caning, caravaning, chairmaning, chalaning, challaning, chicaning, cleaning, companing, costeaning, craning, deaning, demeaning, deplaning, eaning, emplaning, enplaning, foremeaning, gleaning, graddaning, groaning, housecleaning, hydroplaning, leaning, loaning, meaning, misdemeaning, moaning, organing, orphaning, overcleaning, paning, peaning, physicianing, planing, postweaning, precleaning, preweaning, profaning, recaning, recleaning

Are you looking more rhymes for dawning? Try our rhymes search engine.