ALL meanings of dawning
dawn·ing
D d - adjective dawning gradually beginning to become light 3
- adjective dawning gradually taking shape in a person's consciousness 3
- noun dawning the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley. 1
- noun dawning the beginning or rise of anything; advent: the dawn of civilization. 1
- verb without object dawning to begin to grow light in the morning: The day dawned with a cloudless sky. 1
- noun dawning beginning 1
- verb without object dawning to begin to open or develop. 1
- adjective dawning realization 1
- verb without object dawning to begin to be perceived (usually followed by on): The idea dawned on him. 1
- noun dawning (now chiefly poetic) Dawn. 0
- noun dawning The first beginnings of something. 0
- verb dawning present participle of dawn. 0