break of day

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
break of day
    n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they
         talked until morning" [syn: {dawn}, {dawning}, {morning},
         {aurora}, {first light}, {daybreak}, {break of day}, {break
         of the day}, {dayspring}, {sunrise}, {sunup}, {cockcrow}]
         [ant: {sundown}, {sunset}]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "break of day":
      aurora, brightening, chanticleer, cocklight, crack of dawn, dawn,
      dawning, day-peep, daybreak, daylight, dayspring,
      first brightening, light, peep of day, prime, sunrise, sunup,
      vestibule of Day

    

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