Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The beginning of day; dawn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dawn or first appearance of light in the morning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Dawn .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the first light of day
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Examples
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The speaker circumvents the threat of potentially fatal contraction by becoming like the sun, by becoming what he beholds: "We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun," and the daybreak is suddenly "calm and cool" (564-5).
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He had come in at daybreak from the neighboring village, with the news that the old mother had been run over by a cart at the fair and could not travel for many days.
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As the execution was to take place as soon as it should legally be daybreak, that is, about half-past four o'clock, the brothers did not go to bed but sat up in the workroom, feeling somewhat drowsy, and exchanging few words.
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As the execution was to take place as soon as it should legally be daybreak, that is, about half-past four o'clock, the brothers did not go to bed but sat up in the workroom, feeling somewhat drowsy, and exchanging few words.
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As the execution was to take place as soon as it should legally be daybreak, that is, about half-past four o'clock, the brothers did not go to bed but sat up in the workroom, feeling somewhat drowsy, and exchanging few words.
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At last he consented that I should stay with him till just before daybreak, which is in that, as in most climates, the coolest time generally of the twenty-four hours.
Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas
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When the freedman had ceased speaking, Vetranio sat up on the couch, called for a basin of water, dipped his fingers in the refreshing liquid, dried them abstractedly on the long silky curls of the singing-boy who stood beside him, gazed about him once more, repeated interrogatively the word 'daybreak', and sunk gently back upon his couch.
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Original had "daybreak"; changed to "day-break" to be consistent with other occurrences in the text.
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2
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I am becoming a thin line as I walk toward the streak of daybreak light in front of me.
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The sacred cross is the intersection of the cracks of daybreak and nightfall.
bilby commented on the word daybreak
Chuck Norris can put daybreak back together.
December 11, 2009
gangerh commented on the word daybreak
Hah! Superb, bilby!
December 11, 2009