English Dictionary

dawn

IPA（発音記号）

/dɔːn/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise. / (countable) The rising of the sun. / (uncountable) The time when the sun rises. / (uncountable) The earliest phase of something.

日本語の意味

夜明け（太陽が昇る直前の薄明かりの時間） / 日の出（太陽が昇ること） / 明け方（太陽が昇る頃の時間帯） / 始まり、最初の段階（何かの初期段階を示す比喩的表現）

At dawn, the mist over the river glowed like silver, and the town whispered awake.

夜明けに、川の上の霧が銀のように輝き、町が静かに目を覚ました。

意味（1）

(uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.

意味（2）

(countable) The rising of the sun.

意味（3）

(uncountable) The time when the sun rises.

She rose before dawn to meet the train.

意味（4）

(uncountable) The earliest phase of something.

The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).

dawns （ plural ）