Sunrise

/ˈsʌnɹaɪz/ · noun

Meaning

The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon..

Definitions by Sense

1. The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
2. The change in color of the sky at dawn.
3. (figuratively) Any great awakening.
4. (business, uncommon, transitive) To phase in.
5. (idiomatic, intransitive, rare) To awake.
6. (idiomatic, transitive, rare) To cheer up, brighten, or illuminate.

Example Sentences

I'll meet you at the docks at sunrise.

Did you see the beautiful sunrise this morning?

It was the sunrise of her spirit.

Her face shone for a moment with new and unearthly splendour, her eyes lighted up with a very sunrise of joy.

It is in its zenith at mid-June, a very sunrise of Nature; and what with its forest and flower- fringed shores, its palace homes and parks, each with its white-winged or canopied yacht for skimming the lake at will, it at once occurred to me that Paradise had already been discovered and appropriated by Lake Geneva loiterers.

In the first type (upper left quadrant), alternative industrial movements (AIMs) focus on the sunrising of new technologies.

As I "sunrised" and breakfasted, I saw the party of men and women that had come to Horse Camp with the pack-train filing up the long slope below.

"That would be nice of you." She sunrised him again with her smile.

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Word Forms

• sunrises
• sunrising
• sunrised

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