different between dawn vs doom

English

Etymology

Back-formation from dawning. (If the noun rather than the verb is primary, the noun could directly continue dawing.) Compare daw (“to dawn”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?n/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /do?n/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /d?n/
• Homophones: don, Don (accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

dawn (third-person singular simple present dawns, present participle dawning, simple past and past participle dawned)

1. (intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Matthew xxviii. 1

     In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene […] to see the sepulchre.

2. (intransitive) To start to appear or be realized.
3. (intransitive) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

   • in dawning youth

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     when life awakes, and dawns at every line

Derived terms

• dawn on

Translations

Noun

dawn (countable and uncountable, plural dawns)

1. (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
2. (countable) The rising of the sun.

   Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise

3. (uncountable) The time when the sun rises.

   Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise, sunup

4. (uncountable) The earliest phase of something.

   Synonyms: beginning, onset, start

Antonyms

• dusk

Hypernyms

• twilight

Hyponyms

• astronomical dawn
• civil dawn
• nautical dawn

Derived terms

Related terms

• dawning

Translations

See also

• crepuscular

See also

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

References

• dawn at OneLook Dictionary Search
• dawn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Dwan, wand

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dawn/

Determiner

dawn pl

1. plural of dan

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dau?n/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *don, from Proto-Celtic *d?nus (whence also Irish dán), from Proto-Indo-European *déh?nom (“gift”). Compare Latin d?num.

Noun

dawn f (plural doniau)

1. talent, natural gift, ability

Derived terms

• donio (“to gift, to endow”)
• doniog (“gifted, talented”)
• doniol (“funny”)

Etymology 2

Inflected form of dod (“to come”).

Verb

dawn

1. (colloquial) first-person plural future of dod

Alternative forms

• down (colloquial)
• deuwn (literary)

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English dome, dom, from Old English d?m (“judgement”), from Proto-Germanic *d?maz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?óh?mos. Compare West Frisian doem, Dutch doem, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish dom, Icelandic dómur. Doublet of duma. See also deem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

doom (countable and uncountable, plural dooms)

1. Destiny, especially terrible.
2. An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
3. A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
4. (countable, obsolete) A law.
5. (countable, obsolete) A judgment or decision.
6. (countable, obsolete) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
   • 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People

     The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
7. Death.

   They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
8. (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.

Antonyms

• (undesirable fate): fortune

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• deem
• -dom

Translations

Verb

doom (third-person singular simple present dooms, present participle dooming, simple past and past participle doomed)

1. (transitive) To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.

   • Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
3. (obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
4. (obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
5. (archaic, US, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

Translations

See also

• doomsday
• doomsaying
• damn

Anagrams

• Odom, mood

Wolof

Pronunciation

Noun

doom (definite form doom ji)

1. child, offspring
2. seed