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Daybreak

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The beginning of day; dawn.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Dawn.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The dawn or first appearance of light in the morning.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the first light of day

Word Usage

"The speaker circumvents the threat of potentially fatal contraction by becoming like the sun, by becoming what he beholds: "We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun," and the daybreak is suddenly "calm and cool" (564-5)."

Antonym

night

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

time of day hour

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

dawn dawning break dawing daylight morn cockcrow greking day-peep aurora

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

sunrise noon midday dawn daylight sundown midnight sunset nightfall a.m