hour vs dawn

hour and dawn both are nouns.

hour is not a verb while dawn is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hour	Yes	No	No	No
dawn	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, dawn is a hyponym of hour; that is, dawn is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hour:

hour: clock time
dawn: the first light of day

Other hyponyms of hour include high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon, mealtime, late-night hour, midnight, small hours, bedtime, closing time, aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup, early-morning hour, sundown, sunset, crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, none, happy hour, rush hour, zero hour, canonical hour.

hour (noun)	dawn (noun)
distance measured by the time taken to cover it	the earliest period
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day	the first light of day
clock time	an opening time period
a special and memorable period

hour (verb)	dawn (verb)
	become light
	become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
	appear or develop

Difference between hour and dawn

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.