Meaning of Dawnland | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Examples

“the damsel Bolina, […] [and] the nymph Arethusa [prayed and] Diana opened a secret passage for her under the earth and sea, […] All which^([sic]) merely means, if we may believe Sir G. Cox, "that she fled to the Dawnland where Eos closes as she begins the day, and where the sun again greets the love whom he has lost."”

“Dawnland Encounters : Indians and Europeans in Northern New England (Hanover, N.H .: University Press of New England, 1991), 12.”

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“... tension in the Dawnland. Three times since 1675 the Abenaki had pushed English settlers out of the region, which they claimed […]”

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