Meaning

An early riser who gets up at dawn..

Definitions by Sense

1. An early riser who gets up at dawn.
2. An alcoholic beverage drunk early in the morning.
3. One who likes novelty and change; one who is optimistic about new endeavors.

Example Sentences

He was up with the first “sunrisers” and his ax was the last to break the stillness at night.

When he woke that morning she was sitting up. That in itself was unusual, for Joseph is a sunriser.

For the ambitious passengers there is always the opportunity to jog around the deck followed up by an early sunriser's breakfast.

The moonshiners are now only a memory, but the sunrisers have grown into many hundreds, with trailers and campers pulling into Red Rock Canyon days early for a good parking spot.

Stefan took out a brandy flask. "Would you like a sunriser?"

So far as I could see, the African resident likes a sunriser, an eleven o'clocker, an appetizer before lunch, a great many sundowners, and a few nightcaps.

What causes this resistance is among the great mysterious defects of national life. But is it, as the sunrisers claim, diminishing in its obstructive force?

Those who put priority on promoting high tech industry (sunrisers) and those who emphasized the need to protect declining industries (sunsetters) were unable to agree on a common approach.

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