Thesaurus:dawn
English
Noun
Sense: the time when the sun rises
Synonyms
- ass crack of dawn (Canada, US, vulgar)
- break
- break of dawn
- break of day
- butt crack of dawn (Canada, US)
- cockcrow
- crack of dawn (idiomatic)
- dawn
- daybreak
- daylight
- dayspring (archaic)
- first light
- lauds (historical, Christianity)
- solrise (rare, science fiction)
- sparrow-fart (UK, Australia, NZ, slang)
- sun (chiefly literary)
- sunlight
- sunrise
- sunrising (obsolete)
- sunup (US)
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Holonyms
Comeronyms
- early morning [⇒ thesaurus]
- first light
- postdawn
- morning [⇒ thesaurus]
- midday [⇒ thesaurus]
- afternoon [⇒ thesaurus]
- evening [⇒ thesaurus]
- dusk [⇒ thesaurus]
- night
- midnight [⇒ thesaurus]
Various
Further reading
- “125. morning” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “dawn” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.