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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning of light hours |
| Synonyms: | aurora, break of day, bright, cockcrow, crack of dawn, dawn, dawning, day peep, daylight, dayspring, early bright, first light, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup |
| Antonyms: | darkness, eventide, sundown, sunset |
| Main Entry: | daylight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | light part of 24 hours |
| Synonyms: | aurora, dawn, day, daybreak, daytime, during the day, light, light of day, sunlight, sunrise, sunshine |
| Antonyms: | darkness, evening, night, sunset |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luminescence from sun or other source |
| Synonyms: | aurora, beacon, blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, bulb, candle, coruscation, dawn, daybreak, daylight, daytime, effulgence, emanation, flare, flash, fulgor, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, irradiation, lambency, lamp, lantern, lighthouse, luminosity, luster, morn, morning, phosphorescence, radiance, radiation, ray, refulgence, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, star, sun, sunbeam, sunrise, sunshine, taper, torch, window |
| Antonyms: | dark, darkness, night, obscurity |
| Main Entry: | morning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first part of the day |
| Synonyms: | AM, after midnight, ante meridiem, aurora, before lunch, before noon, break of day, breakfast time, cockcrow, crack of dawn, dawn, daybreak, daylight, dayspring, early bright, first blush, foreday, forenoon, morn, morningtide, morrow, prime*, sunrise, sunup, wee hours |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; spring |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, aurora, dawn, daybreak, dew, greenness, juvenility, morn, morning, opening, puberty, pubescence, springtime, start, sunrise, sunup, tender years, vitality, youth, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end |
| 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: | 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: | cockcrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dawn |
| Synonyms: | cockcrowing, dawning, daybreak, first light, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup |
| Main Entry: | dawning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dawn |
| Synonyms: | cockcrow, crack of dawn, daybreak, daylight, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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