sunrise
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sunrise¹
- /ˈsʌnɹaɪz/ US
Rhymes with -ʌnɹaɪz
Where it comes from
From Middle English sonne-rys, sunne ryse, equivalent to sun + rise. Compare Middle English son risyng, sunne rijsyng, sonne-rysing (“sunrise”, literally “sun rising”).
noun sunrises
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The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
I'll meet you at the docks at sunrise.
Similar: sunup, daybreak, sparrow-fart, ass crack of dawn, break, break of dawn, break of day, butt crack of dawn, cockcrow, crack of dawn, dawn, daylight · Opposite: sunset, sundown, cockshut, crepusculum, dark, dimmity, duckish, dusk, evenfall, mirkning, night, nightfall
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The change in color of the sky at dawn.
Did you see the beautiful sunrise this morning?
Opposite: sunset
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Any great awakening.
It was the sunrise of her spirit.
Opposite: sunset
verb sunrises · sunrising · sunrised
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To phase in.
In the first type (upper left quadrant), alternative industrial movements (AIMs) focus on the sunrising of new technologies.
Opposite: sunset
- To awake. 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.
- To cheer up, brighten, or illuminate. "That would be nice of you." She sunrised him again with her smile.
Sunrise²
proper noun
- A census-designated place in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska.
- A city in Broward County, Florida.
- A neighbourhood of the city of Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Chisago County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Bath County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
- A ghost town in Platte County, Wyoming.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: sunup, first light, cockcrow, dayspring, dawning, daybreak, dawn, morning, aurora, new, sunset, sundown, daylight, morn, sunshine, sun
Translations
Every language
noun time of day
| Español | salida del sol, salida de sol, salida solar, orto |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 해돋이 haedoji, 일출 ilchul |
| 日本語 | 日の出 hi no de, 日出 nisshutsu |
| 中文 | 日出 rìchū |
| हिन्दी | सूर्योदय sūryoday |
| Kiswahili | macheo |
| Português | nascer do sol, aurora |
| Français | lever du soleil, potron-minet |
| Deutsch | Sonnenaufgang |
| Italiano | levar del sole, levata del sole, aurora, alba, primo sole, sorgere del sole |
| Ελληνικά | ανατολή anatolí |
| Română | răsărit de soare |
| Русский | восхо́д со́лнца vosxód sólnca, заря́, рассве́т rassvét, восхо́д vosxód |
| Tiếng Việt | bình minh |
| العربية | شُرُوق šurūq, شُرُوق الشَّمْس šurūq aš-šams, بُكُور bukūr, غُدْوَة ḡudwa |
| עברית | זריחה \ זְרִיחָה zrikhá |
noun sky changing color
| Español | salida del sol, salida de sol, salida solar, orto |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 아침놀 achimnol |
| 日本語 | 朝焼け asayake |
| Português | aurora |
| Deutsch | Sonnenaufgang |
| Italiano | aurora |
| Română | crăparea zilei |
| Русский | заря́ zarjá, рассве́т rassvét |
| עברית | זריחה \ זְרִיחָה zrikhá |
Talk about this word "sunrise." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sunrise. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. sunrise. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sunrise "sunrise." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sunrise.Cite this
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