dawn
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/icons/point.icon 一日の時間帯
dawn: 夜明け
daybreak: formal dawnより少し時刻が遅い
sunrise: 日の出
morning: 日の出~正午 or 夜12時~正午 a.m.
midday: 正午周辺
noon: 正午
afternoon: 正午~日没/終業時刻 p.m.
sunset: 日の入り
sundown
evening: 日没前~就寝時頃, 日没から就寝時までの人々が起きて活動している時間
night: 日没~日の出までの暗い間
midnight: 夜12時
noun
1. the first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise:
〖具体例では可算〗夜明け, あけぼの, 暁(daybreak)(↔ dusk)
e.g. the rose-pink light of dawn.
2. the beginning of a phenomenon or period of time, especially one considered favorable:
〖the ~〗 (現象・時代などの)始まり, 夜明け, 黎明期
e.g. the dawn of civilization.
verb no object
1. (of a day) begin:
⦅書⦆ 夜が明ける
e.g. with complement : Thursday dawned bright and sunny.
come into existence:
⦅文⦆ 〈文化・時代などが〉現れ[発達し]始める
e.g. a new era of land-use policy was dawning.
2. become evident to the mind; be perceived or understood:
⦅かたく⦆ 〈考えなどが〉 【人に】わかり始める, 思い浮かぶ «on, upon» ; 〖it ~s on A (that)節/wh節〗 …ということがA〈人〉にわかり始める
e.g. the awful truth was beginning to dawn on him.
PHRASES
from dawn to dusk
all day; ceaselessly:
e.g. day after day from dawn to dusk, they drove those loaded canoes.
ORIGIN
late 15th century (as a verb): back-formation from Middle English dawning.