VERB + DAWN
- greet (literary)
- He always got up to greet the dawn
DAWN + VERB
- break, come (up)
- Dawn was breaking over the valley
DAWN + NOUN
- light, sky
- chorus
- The dawn chorus (= birds singing) woke Robyn at five
- patrol, raid
- Ammunition was seized during a dawn raid on the flat
PREP
- at ~
- That morning, she rose at dawn
- before ~, by ~, till/until ~, towards ~
PHRASES
- (at) the crack of dawn (= as soon as it begins to be light), from dawn to dusk
- He works from dawn to dusk, and often well into the night
ADJ
- false
- This sudden success may prove to be a false dawn (= not the beginning of continued success)
- new
PREP
- ~ of
- the dawn of civilization/history/a new era Let's think back to the dawn of time
PHRASES
- dawn bright, sunny, clear, cold, etc.
- The day dawned bright and sunny
ADV
- suddenly
- gradually, slowly
- It slowly dawned on me that he might have been mistaken
- eventually, finally
VERB + DAWN
- begin to
- It was beginning to dawn on her that she had been fooled
PREP
- on
- The dreadful truth finally dawned on me