daybreak

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
daybreak
    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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Daybreak \Day"break`\ (d[=a]"br[=a]k`), n.
   The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "daybreak":
      aurora, break of day, brightening, chanticleer, cockcrow,
      cocklight, crack of dawn, dawn, dawning, day-peep, daylight,
      dayspring, first brightening, light, morn, morning, peep of day,
      prime, sunrise, sunup, vestibule of Day

    

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