wee hours
Main Entry:
dawn [dawn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning of day
Synonyms: aurora, break of day, bright, cockcrow, crack of dawn, dawning, day peep, daybreak, daylight, early bright, first blush, first light, light, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup, wee hours
Antonyms: dusk, end, evening, eventide, setting, sundown, sunset
Main Entry: small hours
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: earliest hours of day
Synonyms: midnight hours, wee hours, wee small hours
Main Entry: morn
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dawn
Synonyms: aurora, break of day, bright, cockcrow, crack of dawn, dawning, day peep, daybreak, daylight, early bright, first blush, first light, light, morning, sunrise, sunup, wee hours
Main Entry: sunup
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dawn
Synonyms: aurora, break of day, bright, cockcrow, crack of dawn, dawning, day peep, daybreak, daylight, early bright, first blush, first light, light, morn, morning, sunrise, wee hours
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Morning. [Noon]
Category: 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession
Synonyms:
-nouns
morning, morn, forenoon, a.m., prime, dawn, daybreak; dayspring, foreday, sunup; peep of day, break of day; aurora; first blush of the morning, first flush of the morning, prime of the morning; twilight, crepuscule, sunrise; cockcrow, cockcrowing; the small hours, the wee hours of the morning., spring; vernal equinox, first point of Aries., noon; midday, noonday; noontide, merodoam, prime; nooning, noontime., summer, midsummer, dog days.
-adjectives
matin, matutinal; vernal.
-adverbs
at sunrise; with the sun, with the lark, "when the morning dawns".
-phrases
"at shut of evening flowers" [Paradise Lost]; entre chien et loup; "flames in the forehead of the morning sky" [Milton]; "the breezy call of
Antonyms: evening
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