begin vs predawn

begin

noun
  • Beginning; start. 

verb
  • To come into existence. 

  • To be in the first stage of some situation 

  • To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. 

predawn

noun
  • The period immediately preceding dawn. 

adj
  • Before dawn. 

How often have the words begin and predawn occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )