Noun

• S: (n) dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow (the first light of day) "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"
• S: (n) dawn, morning (the earliest period) "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world"
• S: (n) dawn (an opening time period) "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire"
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• S: (n) time period, period of time, period (an amount of time) "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
• S: (n) fundamental quantity, fundamental measure (one of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement)
• S: (n) measure, quantity, amount (how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
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Verb

• S: (v) click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place (become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions) "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"
• S: (v) dawn (appear or develop) "The age of computers had dawned"
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• S: (v) begin, start (have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense) "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250,000"
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• S: (v) dawn (become light) "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"