Dawn vs Bawn - What's the difference?
dawn | bawn |
To begin to brighten with daylight.
* Bible, (w) xxviii. 1
To start to appear or be realized.
*
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To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
(countable) The rising of the sun.
(uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
(uncountable) The beginning.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.
* 1729', (editor), John Nichols (editor, revised edition), '''1812 , ''The British Classics, Volume 45'': ''The works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume XI ,
* 1892 , :
A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack.
* 2004', Colm J. Donnelly, ''Passage or Barrier? Communication between '''Bawn and Tower House in Late Medieval Ireland – the Evidence from County Limerick'', in ''Château Gaillard 21: Études de castellologie médiévale: La Basse-cour: Actes du colloque international de Maynooth (Irlande), 23-30 août 2002 ,
* 1894 , , Chapter 2: Driscoll Spares His Slaves:
* 1899 , :
* 1900 , , Act I:
As a proper noun dawn
is sometimes given to a girl born at that time of day.As a noun bawn is
a cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.dawn
English
Verb
(en verb)- In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdaleneto see the sepulchre.
- in dawning youth
- when life awakes, and dawns at every line
Derived terms
* dawn onSee also
*Noun
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Synonyms
* (rising of the sun) break of dawn, dayspring, sunrise * (time when the sun rises) break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, dayspring, sunrise, sunup * (beginning) beginning, onset, startAntonyms
* duskHypernyms
* twilightDerived terms
* crack of dawn * dawn chorus * it is always darkest before the dawnSee also
* crepuscularAnagrams
* wand ----bawn
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Spenser)
page 163:
- The Grand Question Debated
- Whether Hamilton's Bawn Should be Turned into a Barrack or a Malt-house ? 1729
- This Hamilton's bawn , while it sticks in my hand, / I lose by the house what I get by the land; / But how to dispose of it to the best bidder, / For a barrack or malthouse, we now must consider.
- When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?
page 57:
- The cattle, therefore, would be brought into the bawn' at night, as is stated by the early 17th-century writer Fynes Moryson who wrote that the Irish cattle “eat only by day, and then are brought at evening within the ' bawns of castles, where they stand or lie all night in a dirty yard without so much as a lock of hay.”
Etymology 2
Participle
(head)- "Bofe de same age, sir —five months. Bawn de fust o' Feb'uary."
- But ef it has ter be prove' ter folks w'at wa'n't bawn en raise' in dis naberhood, dey is a' easy way ter prove it.
- Yah! You oughter bin bawn a Christian, you ought. You knaow too mach.