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Plural of dawn

regular plural

The plural of dawn is dawns.

Forms of dawn

Singulardawn /dɔːn/
Pluraldawns
Countablecountable and uncountable

Dawns in a sentence

  • A new day dawns.
  • I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.
  • Each morning, opportunity—like the sun—dawns anew.From the entry anew
  • As the twenty-first century dawns, humanity is beginning to recover from its night-fear.2013, Greogory L. Matloff, Deep-Space Probes, page 25. From the entry night fear
  • Sunsets were redder and more intense; dawns were whiter and more auroral.1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no.…. From the entry auroral

Meaning of dawn

  1. verb To begin to brighten with daylight.
  2. verb To start to appear or become obvious.
  3. verb To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

Full definition of dawn

Questions about the plural of dawn

What is the plural of dawn?
The plural of dawn is dawns.
Is dawn countable?
Dawn is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dawn (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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