Daybreak

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Daybreak \Day"break`\ (d[=a]"br[=a]k`), n.
     The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  daybreak
       n : the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they
           talked until morning" [syn: {dawn}, {dawning}, {morning},
            {aurora}, {first light}, {break of day}, {break of the
           day}, {dayspring}, {sunrise}, {sunup}, {cockcrow}] [ant:
           {sunset}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "daybreak":
     aurora, break of day, brightening, chanticleer, cockcrow,
     cocklight, crack of dawn, dawn, dawning, day-peep, daylight,
     dayspring, first brightening, light, morn, morning, peep of day,
     prime, sunrise, sunup, vestibule of Day