DAWNED

Definition: DAWNED

DAWNED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Dawn

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DAWNED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: DAWNED

English words defined with "DAWNED": click, come home ♦ dawn ♦ fall into place ♦ get across, get through ♦ penetrate ♦ realism, reality, realness ♦ sink in. (references)

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Modern Usage: DAWNED

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It just dawned on me! This scroll of Broken Sword's isn't about sword technique but about swordsmanship's ultimate ideal. (Ying xiong; writing credit: Feng Li; Bin Wang) Well, it finally dawned on you. (On Again Off Again; writing credit: Nat Perrin; Benny Rubin)
Lyrics	It also dawned on the doctor that even trough all the years of hearing Kevin sing, ("Mephisto and Kevin"; performing artist: Primus)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: DAWNED

Author	Quotation
Henrik Ibsen	In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.
Seneca	No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: DAWNED

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Examining more attentively this light which dawned upon his conscience, he recognised that it had a human form, and that this torch was the bishop.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: DAWNED

"DAWNED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 77.97% of the time. "DAWNED" is used about 227 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	77.97%	177	23,322
Lexical Verb (past participle)	21.59%	49	48,677
Adjective (general or positive)	0.44%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	227	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: DAWNED

Expressions using "DAWNED": it dawned on him ♦ it dawned upon me. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DAWNED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
dawned	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: DAWNED

Language		Translations for "DAWNED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		� ��" (Dawning, Daybreak). (various references)

Czech		svitlo mu (it dawned on him). (various references)

Finnish		hänelle selvisi (he realized, it dawned on him). (various references)

German		graute, dämmerte. (various references)

Korean		새벽 (Dawn, Daybreak). (various references)

Pig Latin		awnedday.(various references)

Russian		снисходить (condescend). (various references)

Swedish		det gick upp för mig (it dawned upon me). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DAWNED

Misspellings
	"DAWNED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: danned, Dawen, Dawnay, Dawne, dawneth, Downend, Drawne. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "DAWNED"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "DAWNED" (pronounced dô"nd)
3	-ô" n d	Maund, pawned, spawned, yawned.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: DAWNED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-n-w"
	-1 letter: awned, dawed, dawen, dewan, waded, waned.
	-2 letters: anew, awed, dawn, dead, dean, wade, wand, wane, wean, wend.
	-3 letters: add, and, ane, awe, awn, dad, daw, den, dew, end, nae, naw, new, wad, wae, wan, wed, wen.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, an, aw, de, ed, en, na, ne, we.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-n-w"
	+2 letters: daneweed, headwind, wandered, wideband.
	+3 letters: daneweeds, downgrade, headwinds, unawarded.
	+4 letters: candlewood, downgraded, downgrades, downloaded, downplayed, downscaled, meadowland, pandowdies, sandwiched, unrewarded, windlassed, wonderland, woodenhead, woodlander.
	+5 letters: candlewoods, downhearted, meadowlands, wonderlands, woodenheads, woodlanders, wrongheaded.
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