What does dawn mean in crosswords?

dawn means: First light of day, or the beginning of something.

Which crossword clues can have dawn as the answer?

Possible clues for dawn include "Day's first light", "First glow before sunrise", "First light of day", "First light of morning", and more.

dawn is also used as a crossword clue. The answer is often sunrise, 7 letters.

Word entry · 4 letters

Best crossword clue

"Day's first light"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /dɔːn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted adnwStarts with DEnds with N6 cluesVery common crossword word

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Is this your crossword clue?

"dawn" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often sunrise (7 letters).

From Middle English dawnen, either a back-formation from dawnynge or a modification of dawen (“to dawn”) after it. The noun is from the verb.

“A new day dawns.”
“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.”
“I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

01“Day's first light”4 letters

02“First glow before sunrise”4 letters

03“First light of day”4 letters

04“First light of morning”4 letters

05“Morning's first light”4 letters

06“Early morning”4 letters

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