Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

day-dawn

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.26 in modern English

Syllables: day--dawn
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The rising of the sun; the time when the sun rises.

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"1650, Thomas Shepard, Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The Doctrine of the Sabbath, London: John Rothwell, Thesis 54, p. 52, […] Matthew […] affirms that this Day-light or Day-dawn was the End of the Sabbath."
"At day-dawn I looked thro’ the key-hole of my Beloved’s door."
"For like a day-dawn she was young and pure,"
"Full many a score that lone maid counted o’er Of day-dawns and night-falls—a year to the day—"
"Before day-dawn, Judge Thatcher and the handful of searchers with him were tracked out, in the cave, by the twine clews they had strung behind them, and informed of the great news."

Usage

Inflected Forms

day-dawns (plural)

Synonyms

dawn

Questions

What does day-dawn mean?: The rising of the sun; the time when the sun rises.

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