Thesaurus:dawn
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sense: the time when the sun rises[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- ass crack of dawn (Canada, US, vulgar)
- break
- break of dawn
- break of day
- butt crack of dawn (Canada, US)
- cockcrow
- crack of dawn (idiomatic)
- dawn
- daybreak
- daylight
- dayspring (archaic)
- first light
- lauds (historical, Christianity)
- solrise (rare, science fiction)
- sparrow-fart (UK, Australia, NZ, slang)
- sun (chiefly literary)
- sunlight
- sunrise
- sunrising (obsolete)
- sunup (US)
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Holonyms[edit]
Comeronyms[edit]
Various[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “125. morning” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “dawn” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.