From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe dawn of civilization/time etcthe dawn of civilization/time etcBEGINNINGthe time when something began or first appeared People have been falling in love since the dawn of time.► see thesaurus at beginning → dawn
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the dawn of civilization/time etc• Once, long ago, at the dawn of time, he had persuaded man to disobey in a garden.• Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth. 