It had been the hope which had kept her going through the dawn and early morning.
Waking with a start, she lay in the grey half-light of dawn, wondering where she was.
Eck therefore had a whole night's steaming to put himself a hundred miles from the sinking before submerging at dawn.
One morning she rose at dawn and climbed Ballymacadoyle Hill, behind the fort.
But even at 6: 30 at night, there can be a dawn.
the cold light of dawn 2 → the dawn of civilization/time etc 3 → a false dawn Examples from the Corpus dawn We worked from dawn to dusk (=through the whole day while it is light ). I was up at the crack of dawn (=very early in the morning ) to get the plane.
When dawn broke (=the first light of the day appeared ), we were still 50 miles from Calcutta.
○ noun 1 TMC the time at the beginning of the day when light first appears SYN daybreak, → dusk at dawn The boats set off at dawn.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Chronology dawn dawn 1 / dɔːn $ dɒːn /