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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden happening |
| Synonyms: | beginning, blowup, brawl, break, breaking, burst, bursting, commencement, commotion, convulsion, crack, crash, dawn, detonation, discharge, disorder, disruption, ebullition, effervescence, epidemic, eruption, explosion, fit, flare-up, flash, fury, gush, gushing, insurrection, irruption, mutiny, onset, outburst, outpouring, paroxysm, plague, rebellion, rending, revolution, roar, sally, sortie, spasm, spurt, storm, sundering, surge, thunder, tumult, uprising, volley |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, finale |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become apparent |
| Synonyms: | appear, arise, befall, begin, betide, chance, come, crop up, dawn, derive, develop, emanate, emerge, eventuate, fall out, flare up, flow, go, happen, head, issue, loom, occur, originate, proceed, spring, stem, surface, transpire, turn up |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' |
| Antonyms: | decline, recede, regress |
| Main Entry: | source |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; point of supply |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, author, authority, authorship, begetter, birthplace, cause, commencement, connection, dawn, dawning, derivation, determinant, expert, father, fount, fountain, fountainhead, horse's mouth, inception, informant, maternity, mother, onset, opening, origin, origination, originator, parent, paternity, provenance, provenience, rise, rising, root, specialist, spring, start, starting point, wellspring |
| Antonyms: | effect, end, result |
| Main Entry: | start |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | alpha*, birth, bow, commencement, countdown, dawn, dawning, day one, derivation, embarkation, exit, first step, flying start, foundation, inauguration, inception, initiation, jump-off, kickoff, leaving, onset, opening, origin, outset, running start, setting out, source, spring, square one, start-off, takeoff |
| Antonyms: | completion, conclusion, death, end, ending, finish, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sunrise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rise of sun above horizon |
| Synonyms: | aurora, break of day, bright, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, daylight, early bright, light, morn, morning, sunup |
| Antonyms: | sunset |
| Main Entry: | threshold |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening; beginning |
| Synonyms: | brink, dawn, door, doorstep, doorway, edge, entrance, gate, inception, origin, outset, point, point of departure, sill, start, starting point, verge, vestibule |
| Main Entry: | break of day |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first light |
| Synonyms: | brightening, cockcrow, crack of dawn, dawn, dawning, daybreak, first blush, first brightening, first flush of the morning, peep of day, prime, prime of the morning, sunrise, sunup |
| Main Entry: | first light |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daybreak |
| Synonyms: | aurora, break of day, cocklight, crack of dawn, dawn, dawning, dawnlight, day-peep, daylight, flush of the morning, glow, half-light, morning, peep of day, sunrise, sunup |
| Main Entry: | outset |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | starting |
| Synonyms: | beginning, dawn, origin, rise, source, start |
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