| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | Morning. [Noon] |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
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-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
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| Antonyms: | evening |
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