Thesaurus:dawn

Thesaurus

dawn

English

Noun

Sense: the time when the sun rises

Synonyms

• ass crack of dawn (Canada, US, vulgar)
• break
• break of dawn
• break of day
• butt crack of dawn (Canada, US)
• cockcrow
• crack of dawn (idiomatic)
• dawn
• daybreak
• daylight
• dayspring (archaic)
• first light
• lauds (historical, Christianity)
• solrise (rare, science fiction)
• sparrow-fart (UK, Australia, NZ, slang)
• sun (chiefly literary)
• sunlight
• sunrise
• sunrising (obsolete)
• sunup (US)

Antonyms

• dusk    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• twilight    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• day    [⇒ thesaurus]

Comeronyms

• early morning, dawn, morning, midday, afternoon, evening, dusk, night, midnight

Various

• dawn chorus

Further reading

• “125. morning” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “dawn” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.