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wraith
English
Etymology
First attested 1513, in a Middle Scots translation of the Aeneid.
The word has no certain etymology. J. R. R. Tolkien favored a link with writhe. Also compared are Scots warth and Old Norse v?rðr (“watcher, guardian”), whence Icelandic vörður (“guard”). See also wray/bewray, from Middle English wreien. Perhaps from wrath as a wraith is a vengeful spirit.
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?th, IPA(key): /?e??/
- Rhymes: -e??
Noun
wraith (plural wraiths)
- A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ghost
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE) A showy motor vehicle, a ”whip”.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:automobile
Derived terms
- wraithish
- wraithful
- wraithlike
Translations
Further reading
- wraith on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- wraith in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
References
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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/
- (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)
- (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.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Matthew xxviii. 1
- (intransitive) To start to appear or be realized.
- (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)
- (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
- (countable) The rising of the sun.
- Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise
- (uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
- Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise, sunup
- (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
- 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)
- 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
- (colloquial) first-person plural future of dod
Alternative forms
- down (colloquial)
- deuwn (literary)
Mutation
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