{
    "term": "dawn",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the time of day when light first appears",
            "sensetop": "at dawn",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They start work at dawn.",
                    "contextForm": "at dawn"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's almost dawn."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We arrived in Sydney as **dawn broke** *(= as the first light could be seen)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I woke up just before dawn."
                },
                {
                    "text": "summer’s early dawns"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He works **from dawn till dusk** *(= from morning till night)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plane took off, leaving London behind in a blue-grey dawn."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dawn was breaking over the valley."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She awoke to another glorious dawn."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He always got up to greet the dawn."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Be prepared for cold nights and foggy dawns in the mountains next week."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ammunition was seized during a dawn raid on the house."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["grey/​gray", "early"],
                "verb + dawn": ["greet", "see", "watch"],
                "dawn + verb": ["break", "come", "come up"],
                "dawn + noun": ["light", "sky", "chorus"],
                "preposition": ["at dawn", "before dawn", "by dawn"],
                "phrases": ["(at) the crack of dawn", "from dawn to dusk"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the beginning or first signs of something",
            "sensetop": "dawn (of something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **dawn of civilization/time/history**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Peace marked a new dawn in the country's history."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the dawn of a golden age in European art"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are seeing the dawn of a new era."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This sudden success may prove to be a false dawn."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This appointment marked the dawn of a productive era in her scientific career."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["false", "new"],
                "verb + dawn": ["mark", "signal", "see"],
                "preposition": ["dawn of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very early in the morning",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I have to get up at the crack of dawn."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the moment in the early hours of the morning when it begins to get light",
            "labels": "(literary)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɔːn/",
                "audio": "da/dawn/dawn__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɔːn/",
                "audio": "da/dawn/dawn__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (as a verb): back-formation from Middle English dawning alteration of earlier dawing, from Old English dagian ‘to dawn’, of Germanic origin."
}