Aurora (4 letters)

{ Answer }

DAWN

{ Related Clues }

Arise
*Beginning
Beginning
Cockcrow
Daybreak
Occur to, with "on"
Sunrise
Sunup
Auroral time
Daily phenomenon
Duo with Orlando
Early morning
Eos' domain
First light
Haggard novel
Kind of patrol
Time to crow
Time for crowing
Time of day
Vampire's bedtime
Backup for Tony Orlando
Begin to be clear
Begin to be perceived
It begins as a crack
Singing duo of TV
Start of a new day
When Cavaradossi is shot
Common time to start on a trip
Homer's was "rosy-fingered"
It breaks every day
Setting of the painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware"
Start time for many a military mission

{ Tags }

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{ Notes }

The answer DAWN is common and appears about once every 275 puzzles.

{ Definition }

DAWN as a noun:

1. (dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow) = the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"

2. (dawn, morning) = the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world"

3. an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire"

DAWN as a verb:

1. (click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place) = become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"

2. appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned"

3. become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"