sunrise
sunrise is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Hence, the region where the sun rises; the east. Which were beyond Jordan toward the sunrising. Deut. iv. 47 (Rev. Ver.) Full hot and fast the Saxon rides, with rein of travel slack, And, bending o'ev his saddle, leaves the sunrise at his back. Whittier.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- aurora
- blush
- break
- breezy
- call
- cockcrow
- cockcrowing
- crepuscule
- dawn
- day
- daybreak
- dayspring
- equinox
- evening
- first
- flush
- forehead
- forenoon
- hours
- incense-breathing
- lark
- loup
- matin
- matutinal
- meridian
- midday
- midsummer
- morn
- morning
- noon
- noonday
- nooning
- noontide
- peep
- point
- prime
- shut
- sky
- small
- spring
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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