Nouns

(n)dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrowthe first light of day“we got up before dawn”, “they talked until morning”
(n)dawn, morningthe earliest period“the dawn of civilization”, “the morning of the world”
(n)dawnan opening time period“it was the dawn of the Roman Empire”

Verbs

(v)click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into placebecome clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions“It dawned on him that she had betrayed him”, “she was penetrated with sorrow”
(v)dawnappear or develop“The age of computers had dawned”
(v)dawnbecome light“It started to dawn, and we had to get up”