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 Translation for 'at dawn' from English to French
à l'aube {adv}at dawn
5+ Words
se lever avec le jour [loc.]to get up at the crack of dawn [idiom]
Fiction (Literature and Film)
filmlittérat.F
La Promesse de l'aube
Promise at Dawn [author: Romain Gary (1961); director: Jules Dassin (1970); director: Eric Barbier (2017)]
Partial Matches
aube {f}dawn
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petit jour {m}dawn
poindre [aube]to dawn
heure {f} matinaledawn
aurore {f}dawn
avant l'aube {adv}before dawn
aux aurores {adv}before dawn
filmF
L'Ultime Attaque
Zulu Dawn [Douglas Hickox]
de l'aube à la nuit {adv} [loc.]from dawn to dusk [idiom]
aube {f} d'un nouveau siècledawn of a new century
aube {f} d'une époque nouvelledawn of a new era
filmF
Par la porte d'or
Hold Back the Dawn [Mitchell Leisen]
filmF
Cela s'appelle l'aurore
That Is the Dawn [Luis Buñuel (1956)]
à {prep}at
au lever du soleil {adv}at sunrise
au coucher du soleil {adv}at sunset
à la tombée de la nuit {adv}at nightfall
présentement {adv}at present
tout court {adv}at all
au petit bonheur {adv}at random
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Usage Examples English
  • The species is at least somewhat nocturnal, with peak activity being reported by one source as occurring around "two hours after dark" and again at dawn (although the dawn peak was recorded in the lab and could be misleading as a result).
  • Helios discovered the two and alerted Hephaestus, as Ares in rage turned Alectryon into a rooster, which always crows at dawn when the sun is about to rise announcing its arrival.
  • Hamsters can be described as nocturnal or crepuscular (active mostly at dawn and dusk).
  • Siegfried arrives at dawn via Tarnhelm-magic back to the settlement of the Gibichungs, having resumed his natural form and left Brünnhilde on a boat on the Rhine with Gunther.
  • Godzilla is sighted at dawn in Tokyo Bay heading towards Tokyo, causing mass evacuations.

  • In January 1936, a time period where he was already an established science-fiction writer, he took a job for salary plus profit-sharing, as production manager at Dawn Donut Co.
  • A French mercenary by the name of Bob Denard, arrived in the Comoros at dawn on 13 May 1978, and removed Soilih from power.
  • At dawn on 31 March 1942, a dozen Japanese bombers launched the attack, destroying the radio station.
  • This is because the petals open at dawn and close at dusk.
  • In April 2006, his memoir "You Must Set Forth at Dawn" was published by Random House.

  • In a typical daily routine at the monastery during the 3-month vassa period, the monk will wake up before dawn and will begin the day with group chanting and meditation. At dawn the monks will go out to surrounding villages bare-footed on alms-round and will have the only meal of the day before noon by eating from the bowl by hand.
  • Star and planet sights are normally taken during nautical twilight at dawn or dusk, while both the heavenly bodies and the sea horizon are visible.
  • Birdlife is prolific, most often seen at waterholes at dawn and dusk.
  • Antares is visible all night around May 31 of each year, when the star is at opposition to the Sun. Antares then rises at dusk and sets at dawn as seen at the equator.
  • but at dawn on April 19, 1995, he decided instead to destroy the building at 9:00 a.m.

  • A traditional sweeps festival is performed over the May bank holiday in Rochester, Kent, where the Jack in the Green is woken at dawn on 1 May by Morris dancers.
  • Carbide was promoted by the Dalén light which automatically lit the lamp at nightfall and extinguished it at dawn.
  • Ra travels across the sky in his solar-boat; at dawn he drives away the demon king Apep.
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