Before dawn
Night and before dawn are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Night" instead a noun phrase "Before dawn".
Night
Night noun - The time from sunset to sunrise when there is no visible sunlight.
Before dawn and night are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Before dawn" instead a noun "Night".
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- Most of the first Artemis Fowl book takes place on the night of Christmas Eve or before dawn on Christmas Day.
Source: Did I Mention It's Christmas? -
They certainly imagined that their superior training and advantage in the night would overwhelm the surfacer armies without any difficulty long before dawn became an issue.
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To make a replacement before dawn, Edison needs a cotton thread for the filament, but the local cotton factory is closed for the night and the guard will only listen to the sound of one man's voice.
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Night and Before dawn. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/before_dawn/night
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