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/əʊˈbɑːd/ · noun
(music, poetry) A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning..
And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.
Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.
Use aubade when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Aubade means (music, poetry) A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.
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