predawn
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈpriːˌdɔːn/
:
preamanecer
- So, I had to climb enormous boulders in the pitch-black darkness of predawn with only a small flashlight to guide me.
- predawn hours
- darkness of predawn
- predawn light
Examples
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Now, in the predawn hours, most of these derelicts had fallen asleep in pools of spilled beer or staggered off to the common sleeping room or their lodgings elsewhere in town.
Fiction book (1992) -
Street confrontations continue off and on throughout the night and into the predawn hours of Saturday.
Academic text (2001) -
A misty predawn, bled of all color.
Fiction book (1991) -
The wind had abandoned them completely, Alicia told herself when she awakened to the pale blue light of predawn.
Fiction book (1992) -
The next morning, Luke woke us in the dark, and while the sky bent from indigo to the rich velvet sky blue of predawn, we drove north.
Fiction book (1991) -
Bring a tripod and cable release, and dress warmly: it can be quite chilly in the predawn.
Academic text (2009) -
She, Yehoshua, and Bach went outside into the suspended half-light of predawn.
Fiction book (1990) -
Interstate 75 in the windless predawn, gripping the wheel of the Food Science van with his troubled pink fingers.
Fiction book (1994) -
The storm from the 1699 and 1866 trails should be visible over the western Pacific, Japan, Australia, and parts of China in the predawn hours of Monday, November 19.
Academic text (2001) -
The silhouette of the Basilica of St. Mark was black against the paling predawn sky.
Synonyms
386
1.0
The first light in the sky before the sun rises
36
2.4
Soft light in the sky just before sunrise or after sunset
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1.7
The time in the morning when the sky starts to get bright
29
1.0
The time in the early morning when light first appears in the sky
14
3.7
The time when the first light appears in the morning
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1.0
The first light of morning when the sun rises
1
9.1
The time very early in the morning when light first appears
1
1.9
The first light of morning when the sun begins to appear
Soft pale light that appears in the sky just before sunrise
How Light
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The predawn is the time just before the sun rises. Its parts are pre- 'before' and dawn 'first light', so predawn means the dark or faint light right before sunrise.