"dawning" meaning in English

See dawning in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈdɔːnɪŋ/ [UK, US], /ˈdɑːnɪŋ/ [US, cot-caught-merger] Forms: dawnings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ Etymology: From Middle English dawnynge, an alteration of dawing, under the influence of North Germanic cognates (compare Swedish, Danish dagning). See daw (“to dawn”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|dawnynge}} Middle English dawnynge, {{der|en|gmq|-}} North Germanic, {{cog|sv|-}} Swedish, {{cog|da|dagning}} Danish dagning, {{m|en|daw#Etymology 2|daw|t=to dawn}} daw (“to dawn”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} dawning (plural dawnings)
  1. (chiefly poetic) Dawn. Tags: poetic Translations (dawn): pūaotanga (Maori), рассве́т (rassvét) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-dawning-en-noun-Yk2HEXov Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments, English links with redundant alt parameters Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 51 12 38 Disambiguation of English links with redundant alt parameters: 52 11 36 Disambiguation of 'dawn': 99 1
  2. The first beginnings of something.
    Sense id: en-dawning-en-noun-j~7bm43g
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: daunyng (15th - 16th centuries)

Verb

IPA: /ˈdɔːnɪŋ/ [UK, US], /ˈdɑːnɪŋ/ [US, cot-caught-merger]
Rhymes: -ɔːnɪŋ Etymology: From Middle English dawnynge, an alteration of dawing, under the influence of North Germanic cognates (compare Swedish, Danish dagning). See daw (“to dawn”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|dawnynge}} Middle English dawnynge, {{der|en|gmq|-}} North Germanic, {{cog|sv|-}} Swedish, {{cog|da|dagning}} Danish dagning, {{m|en|daw#Etymology 2|daw|t=to dawn}} daw (“to dawn”) Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} dawning
  1. present participle and gerund of dawn Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: dawn
    Sense id: en-dawning-en-verb-1Q8LTvCJ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: daunyng (15th - 16th centuries)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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