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before dawn

NOUN

night

Synonyms

STRONGEST

midnight

STRONG

bedtime blackness dark darkness duskiness evening eventide gloom nightfall nighttime obscurity twilight

WEAK

after dark after hours dark hours dead of night dusk to dawn nighttide pitch dark pitch-darkness witching hour

Antonyms

STRONG

day daybreak daylight daytime light morning

WEAK

brightness illumination lightness

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Fishermen pass it before dawn, carrying their nets towards the shoreline.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Instead, I woke before dawn, as I had done every day for months, and walked the short distance to the hospital.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

That involves “rising before dawn to begin the day with liturgical prayer and returning to church periodically during the day for further prayer together.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

Foreign ministers from Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan gathered before dawn Thursday in Riyadh for talks aimed at finding a diplomatic off-ramp to the war in Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Mrs. Muokelu did not come by to call her before dawn and was not there among the crowd.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

before dawn

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