Foredawn

Quick meaning: Foredawn is a noun meaning The time before dawn.

Meaning

The time before dawn.

More Meanings

1. To anticipate dawning or emerging.

Example Sentences

Full, as they are, of murmurous silences in the foredawns And budding with the dawns in a noise of cranes

I see in it a wonderful fulfillment of things and plans which have been foredawned in my mind, many years ago;

So when Gerald Owen heard the voice in the dark of foredawn, he had no idea that its instructions would come to naught.

I opened the front door and went out into the foredawn, into the hissing of the silence and the humming of the underground trains standing empty with lighted windows on the far side of the common.

Word Forms

• foredawns
• foredawning
• foredawned

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include predawn, dawn, foreday, predusk, dawning, beforenoon.

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