DAWNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dawning mean? 

• DAWNING (noun)
  The noun DAWNING has 1 sense:

1. the first light of day

  Familiarity information: DAWNING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAWNING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first light of day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

aurora; break of day; break of the day; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; daybreak; dayspring; first light; morning; sunrise; sunup

Context example:

they talked until morning

Hypernyms ("dawning" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

Derivation:

dawn (become light)

 Context examples 

There were no trees, no shrubs, no grasses—naught but a tremendous and terrible desolation that sent fear swiftly dawning into his eyes.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A new and incomprehensibly fairer life was dawning.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Your chart shows that a new day is dawning for you, and it is a better day than you’ve seen in a long time.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

As Challenger spoke of his pterodactyl I glanced at Professor Summerlee, and for the first time I seemed to see some signs of a dawning credulity and repentance.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’m afraid some one else has fed me most of my life, she laughed, trying bravely to enter into the spirit of his quizzing, though I could see a terror dawning and growing in her eyes as she watched Wolf Larsen.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

That was a point which Anne had not been able to avoid suspecting before; and instead of drawing the same conclusion as Mary, from the present course of events, they served only to confirm the idea of his having felt some dawning of tenderness toward herself.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)