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dawn

n. an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire"

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

n. the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"

dawn

v. appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned"

dawn

v. become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"

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advent, coming

n. arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); "the advent of the computer"

emergence, outgrowth, growth

n. the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"

origin, origination, inception

n. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

birth, nativity, nascency, nascence

n. the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child"

day, daytime, daylight

n. the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime"

matins, morning prayer

n. the first canonical hour; at daybreak

infancy, babyhood, early childhood

n. the early stage of growth or development

beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset

n. the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"

birth

n. a baby born; an offspring; "the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births"

origin, origination, inception

n. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

seem

v. appear to one's own mind or opinion; "I seem to be misunderstood by everyone"; "I can't seem to learn these Chinese characters"

arise, rise, uprise, get up, stand up

v. rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded"

begin, start

v. 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"

begin

v. begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language; "She began Russian at an early age"; "We started French in fourth grade"

emerge

v. become known or apparent; "Some nice results emerged from the study"

hit, strike

v. affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight"

stretch, stretch out

v. extend one's body or limbs; "Let's stretch for a minute--we've been sitting here for over 3 hours"

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sunset, sundown

n. the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon

evening

n. the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way; "an evening at the opera"

twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle

n. the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"

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