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Dawn

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A female given name from English, sometimes given to a girl born at dawn.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from English, sometimes given to a girl born at dawn.

    "Thomas, if it's a boy," she said, "after my uncle. But if it's a girl I'd like something fancy for a first name." "What about Dawn?" she said. "I like the sound of Dawn. Then Mary for a second name. Dawn Mary Parker, it sounds sweet."

    Dawn, go away, I’m no good for you.

Etymology

From dawn.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).