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Dawnland

Dawnland proper noun: a real or mythical place where the dawn first breaks and the day begins, from a given perspective or frame of reference.

Proper noun

Dawnland

  1. A real or mythical place where the dawn first breaks and the day begins, from a given perspective or frame of reference.
    • the damsel Bolina, […] [and] the nymph Arethusa [prayed and] Diana opened a secret passage for her under the earth and sea, […] All which^([sic]) merely means, if we may believe Sir G. Cox, "that she fled to the Dawnland where Eos closes as she begins the day, and where the sun again greets the...1887, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, The Eclectic Magazine, page 466
  2. New England, in Native American (especially Abenaki) contexts. (Sometimes particularly with regard to it being the homeland of the Abenaki, and thus sometimes functionally meaning "Abenaki". Occasionally uncapitalized: dawnland.)
    • Dawnland Encounters : Indians and Europeans in Northern New England (Hanover, N.H .: University Press of New England, 1991), 12.2003, Historical New Hampshire
    • [see title]2014 September 1, Siobhan Senier, Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 14
  3. Japan.

Origin of Dawnland

From dawn + land. In reference to New England, calque of Abenaki Wôbanaki, see Abenaki for more. In reference to Japan, from the Fandom site "The Anglish Moot", a calque of Japanese 日本.

Questions about Dawnland

What does Dawnland mean?
Dawnland means a real or mythical place where the dawn first breaks and the day begins, from a given perspective or frame of reference.
What part of speech is Dawnland?
Dawnland is a proper noun.

Words near Dawnland in the dictionary

  1. dawneth
  2. dawning
  3. dawning on
  4. dawning upon
  5. dawnings
  6. Dawnland
  7. dawnless
  8. dawnlight
  9. dawnlike
  10. Dawnn
  11. dawns

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