dawns
Day's first light
Dawns is the plural of dawn—the moments when daylight first appears: Arctic dawns in summer come impossibly early.
It also serves as the third-person singular verb, meaning to begin to grow light or to begin to be perceived: Understanding dawns slowly; It dawns on her that she's been lied to.
Morning light's arrival
- daybreakMorning's first light
- sunupMorning's first light
- cockcrowDawn, announced by fowl
- morningDay's early hours
aurora · twilight · horizon · east · rooster · dew · mist · birdsong
Sudden profound insight
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- understandingMental comprehension of something
awareness · comprehension · clarity · enlightenment · recognition · discernment · aha · breakthrough
sunrise
Morning light's arrival
morning · aurora · twilight · horizon · east · rooster · dew · mist · birdsong · golden
epiphany
Sudden profound insight
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
understanding · awareness · comprehension · clarity · enlightenment · recognition · discernment · aha · breakthrough · illumination
commencement
Act of starting
nascence · outset · threshold · prelude · prologue · infancy · emergence · birth · origin · start
- originsbeginning, birth, creation, source, roots
- mental actionsthinks, considers, understands, perceives, recognizes
- beginningsbegin, beginning, start, first, opening
- skiesblue skies, clouds, night sky, night skies, stormy skies
dawnsendings
Concluding portions
conclusions · finales · completions · ends · closings
- crack of dawnEarliest morning light
- before dawnTime preceding sunrise
- dawned onBecame clear to
- dawn of timeThe absolute beginning
- dawn onBecome realized by
- break of dawnFirst light of morning