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midday

English

Alternative forms

  • mid-day

Etymology

From Middle English midday, from Old English middæ? (midday, noon), equivalent to mid- +? day. Cognate with Scots midday (midday), West Frisian middei (midday, noon, afternoon), Dutch middag (midday, noon, afternoon), German Mittag (noon, midday, late morning, early afternoon), Danish middag (midday, noon, afternoon), Norwegian Bokmål middag (midday, noon, afternoon), Swedish middag (midday, noon, afternoon).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /m?d?de?/

Noun

midday (countable and uncountable, plural middays)

  1. noon; twelve o'clock during the day

Synonyms

  • nones, noontide; see also Thesaurus:midday

Antonyms

  • midnight; see also Thesaurus:midnight

Translations

See also

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

Anagrams

  • mydaid

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dawn

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/
  • (cotcaught 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)

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