false dawn

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Определение false dawn в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

A thin ambient light which precedes true dawn, typically by around an hour, in certain parts of the world

The moon was low down, and there was just the glimmer of the false dawn that comes about an hour before the real one.

Something engendering premature hope; a promising sign which in fact leads to nothing

As Congo nears the 50th anniversary of its independence from Belgium on June 30th, Mr Chebeya’s murky death suggests that 2006 was a false dawn.

a situation in which something good seems likely to happen, but it does not

Расстановка переносов

false Dawn

Турецкое произношение

fôls dôn

Произношение

/ˈfôls ˈdôn/ /ˈfɔːls ˈdɔːn/

Этимология

() From false + dawn, translating Arabic صبح كاذب (SubH kaaDib).