Synonyms for sun-up
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Noun
1. Break of day — the time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon
break of day, sunrise, dawn, day-light, daybreak, sunlight, morning, first light, crack of dawn, cock-crow, dawning, aurora, sparrow-fart, peep of day, dayspring dated, sunrising dated, solrise rare
Definitions
- n. 1
The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
Related words
- Word family
- sundown
- Other spellings
- sunup
Forms
- Plural
- sun-ups → sunrises, dawns, day-lights, daybreaks…
Example sentences
- dawn Dawn, to the poet Yeats, is "the brightening air."
- sunrise The farmer rose at sunrise and worked till sunset.
By length
- 4 letters
- dawn1
- 6 letters
- aurora3
- 7 letters
- morning2, sunrise2, dawning2, solrise
- 8 letters
- sunlight2, daybreak2
- 9 letters
- dayspring, sunrising
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (aurora3 = 3 syllables).