expression:

• it's always darkest before the dawn; the darkest hour is just before the dawn

expression / ichidan verb:

• dawn breaks; day dawns

noun:

• dawn and dusk; morn and eve

noun:

• the light of dawn

noun:

• moonless dawn

noun:

• light of dawn; daybreak

noun:

• spring dawn; dawn of a spring day ➜ 暁

temporal noun:

• since the dawn of history - four character idiom

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to become luminous at dawn (esp. the sky)

noun:

• cold winter dawn - poetical term

noun:

• dark before dawn

noun:

• Fuji dawn (species of violet, Viola mandshurica) - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to crow at the break of dawn (of a rooster, etc.); to mark the dawn; to proclaim the dawn

noun:

• fog appearing at dawn - obscure term

~の noun / adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• since the era of the Emperor Jinmu; (first ever) since the dawn of Japan's history; unprecedented - four character idiom

noun:

• metasequoia; dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) - From Latin

ichidan verb:

• to begin to grow light; to dawn

temporal noun:

• since the creation (of the world); since the dawn of history - four character idiom

noun:

• around six o'clock AM; dawn service - Buddhism term ➜ 六時

noun:

• (since) the beginning of the universe; (since) the dawn of time - four character idiom

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• still dark; not yet dawn

godan ~す verb:

• to dance all night; to dance until dawn

~と adverb / adverb:

• growing light (e.g. at dawn)
• pale
• appearing dumb; talking in an obvious way

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• this morning (at dawn)

noun:

• violet (any flower of genus Viola, esp. the Fuji dawn, Viola mandshurica)