Donna vs Dawn - What's the difference?
donna | dawn |
A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy.
* 1837 , Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling reminiscences (page 65)
* 2005 , Burton D. Fisher, Mozart's Don Giovanni , page 22
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.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- What are the songs of Italy, sung as they are by the donnas of the scenic board, but a replication of squalls and quavers, infinitely more annoying than the gibberish of crones
- In Don Giovanni's three female characters, the diverse spectrum of womanhood is rendered complete: the great opera seria character of the avenging Donna' Anna, the sentimental and spurned ' Donna Elvira, and the crafty but sympathetic peasant girl Zerlina.
Synonyms
* (lady) lady, madam, mistress, noblewomanCoordinate terms
* (lady) dondawn
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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