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Dawning vs Daybreak - What's the difference?

dawning | daybreak |

As nouns the difference between dawning and daybreak

is that dawning is dawn while daybreak is dawn.

As a verb dawning

is present participle of lang=en.

dawning

English

Alternative forms

* daunyng

Noun

(en noun)
  • Dawn.
  • *:
  • *:Anone after cam the knyght with the two swerdes and balan his broder / and brought with hem kynge Ryons of Northwalys and there delyuerd hym to the porters and charged hem with hym / & soo they two retorned ageyne in the daunyng of the day
  • * 1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night)
  • never there / Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath / After the dewy dawning' s cold grey air
  • The first beginnings of something.
  • *1995 , (Pinky and the Brain) , theme:
  • *:Before each night is done, / Their plan will be unfurled, / By the dawning of the sun, / They'll take over the world.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • daybreak

    English

    Noun

  • Dawn.
  • Synonyms

    * break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, sunrise