Daybreak

ahd-5
  • noun. The beginning of day; dawn.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The dawn or first appearance of light in the morning.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Dawn.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. 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)."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    night  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hour  time of day  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    a.m  dawn  daylight  midday  midnight  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning