English Explanatory Dictionary

Dawnland

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A real or mythical place where the dawn first breaks and the day begins, from a given perspective or frame of reference.
  2. New England, in Native American (especially Abenaki) contexts. (Sometimes particularly with regard to it being the homeland of the Abenaki, and thus sometimes functionally meaning "Abenaki". Occasionally uncapitalized: dawnland.)
  3. Japan.

Word forms

Dawnland

Etymology

From dawn + land. In reference to New England, calque of Abenaki Wôbanaki, see Abenaki for more. In reference to Japan, from the Fandom site "The Anglish Moot", a calque of Japanese 日本.

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