Collocations for dawn - noun

grey

greet
(literary) He always got up to greet the dawn.

break, come (up)
Dawn was breaking over the valley.

light, sky | chorus
The dawn chorus (= birds singing) woke Robyn at five.

patrol, raid
Ammunition was seized during a dawn raid on the flat.

at ~
That morning, she rose at dawn.

before ~, by ~, till/until ~, towards ~

(at) the crack of dawn
(= as soon as it begins to be light),

from dawn to dusk
He works from dawn to dusk, and often well into the night.

false
This sudden success may prove to be a false dawn (= not the beginning of continued success).

new

~ of
the dawn of civilization/history/a new era Let''s think back to the dawn of time.