sunrise
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Etymology edit
From Middle English sonne-rys, sunne ryse, equivalent to sun + rise. Compare Middle English son risyng, sunne rijsyng, sonne-rysing (“sunrise”, literally “sun rising”).
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Noun edit
sunrise (countable and uncountable, plural sunrises)
- The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
- Synonyms: sunup, sparrow-fart; see also Thesaurus:dawn
- Antonyms: sunset, sundown; see also Thesaurus:dusk
- Coordinate term: moonrise
- I'll meet you at the docks at sunrise.
- The change in color of the sky at dawn.
- Did you see the beautiful sunrise this morning?
- (figuratively) Any great awakening.
- It was the sunrise of her spirit.
- 1915, Mrs. Hugh Fraser, Storied Italy[1]:
- Her face shone for a moment with new and unearthly splendour, her eyes lighted up with a very sunrise of joy.
- 1898, F. R. Chandler, The Story of Lake Geneva, Or, Summer Homes for City People[2]:
- It is in its zenith at mid-June, a very sunrise of Nature; and what with its forest and flower- fringed shores, its palace homes and parks, each with its white-winged or canopied yacht for skimming the lake at will, it at once occurred to me that Paradise had already been discovered and appropriated by Lake Geneva loiterers.
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time of day
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sky changing color
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figurative awakening
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Verb edit
sunrise (third-person singular simple present sunrises, present participle sunrising, simple past and past participle sunrised)
- (business, uncommon, transitive) To phase in.
- Antonym: sunset