Synonyms of dawns

dawns 1 of 2

noun

plural of dawn

1

as in sunrises

the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance

we stayed up talking until dawn

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sunrises
• morns
• days
• mornings
• daylights
• lights
• aurorae
• suns
• auroras
• daybreaks
• sunups
• cockcrows
• daytimes
• forenoons

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sunsets
• nightfalls
• nights
• sundowns
• midnights
• afternoons
• darks
• nighttimes
• dusks
• evenings
• twilights
• eventides
• gloamings
• middays

2

as in starts

the point at which something begins

the dawn of civilization

Synonyms & Similar Words

• starts
• beginnings
• inceptions
• commencements
• launches
• onsets
• alphas
• mornings
• outsets
• geneses
• thresholds
• day ones
• baselines
• births
• incipiencies
• infancies
• incipiences
• nascencies
• nascences
• kickoffs
• get-goes
• inaugurations
• origins
• git-goes
• initiations
• originations
• ground zeros
• first bases
• arrivals
• drawing boards
• springs
• emergences
• square ones
• cradles
• debuts
• advents
• sources
• fountains
• creations
• openings
• wellsprings
• germs
• débuts
• wells
• institutions
• childhoods
• youths
• fountainheads
• seedbeds
• appearances
• roots

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ends
• closes
• conclusions
• endings
• periods
• finishes
• stops
• closures
• closings
• terminations
• completions
• omegas
• cessations
• finales
• windups

dawns

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of dawn

as in begins

to come into existence

a smile dawned on his face as he got the joke

Synonyms & Similar Words

• begins
• starts
• arises
• commences
• originates
• appears
• emerges
• is
• arrives
• forms
• springs
• engenders
• exists
• materializes
• breaks
• lasts
• actualizes
• lives
• sets in
• breathes
• continues
• persists
• survives
• subsists
• comes on
• endures
• shapes (up)
• coalesces
• coheres

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ends
• ceases
• stops
• concludes
• disappears
• finishes
• halts
• terminates
• vanishes
• quits
• dissolves
• dies
• evaporates
• departs
• expires
• discontinues
• desists
• perishes
• passes away