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Is dawn a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dawn is a Scrabble US word. The word dawn is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is dawn a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dawn is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

D2A1W4N1

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Yes. The word dawn is a Words With Friends word. The word dawn is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

DAWN,WAND,

3-letter words (7 found)

AND,AWN,DAN,DAW,NAW,WAD,WAN,

2-letter words (5 found)

AD,AN,AW,DA,NA,

You can make 14 words from dawn according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dawn

dawn adwn dwan wdan awdn wadn danw adnw dnaw ndaw andw nadw dwna wdna dnwa ndwa wnda nwda awnd wand anwd nawd wnad nwad

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word dawn. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in dawn.

Definitions and meaning of dawn

dawn

Etymology

Back-formation from dawning. (If the noun rather than the verb is primary, the noun could directly continue dawing.) Compare daw (“to dawn”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɔːn/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /dɔn/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /dɑn/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /doːn/
  • Homophones: don, Don (accents with the cot-caught merger)
  • Rhymes: -ɔːn

Verb

dawn (third-person singular simple present dawns, present participle dawning, simple past and past participle dawned)

  1. (intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight.
  2. (intransitive, figurative) To start to appear or be realized.
  3. (intransitive, figurative) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

Derived terms

  • dawn on

Translations

Noun

dawn (countable and uncountable, plural dawns)

  1. (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
  2. (countable) The rising of the sun.
    Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise
  3. (uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
    Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise, sunup
  4. (uncountable) The earliest phase of something.
    Synonyms: beginning, onset, start

Antonyms

  • dusk

Hypernyms

  • twilight

Hyponyms

  • astronomical dawn
  • civil dawn
  • nautical dawn

Derived terms

Related terms

  • dawning

Translations

See also

  • crepuscular

See also

  • (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)

References

  • “dawn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “dawn”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Dwan, Wand, wand

Maltese

Alternative forms

  • dawna, daw

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dawn/

Determiner

dawn

  1. plural of dan
    Coordinate term: hedawn (hedawna)

Middle English

Noun

dawn

  1. Alternative form of dan

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dau̯n/
  • Rhymes: -au̯n

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *don, from Proto-Celtic *dānus (whence also Irish dán), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃nom (“gift”). Compare Latin dōnum.

Noun

dawn f (plural doniau)

  1. talent, natural gift, ability
Derived terms
  • donio (“to gift, to endow”)
  • doniog (“gifted, talented”)
  • doniol (“funny”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dawn

  1. first-person plural future colloquial of dod
Alternative forms
  • down (colloquial)
  • deuwn (literary)

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Source: wiktionary.org