sunrise Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the first light of day
    sunup; daybreak; break of day; dawning; aurora; morning; break of the day; first light; dayspring; dawn; cockcrow.
    • we got up before dawn
    • they talked until morning
  2. noun atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily appearance of the sun
  3. noun the daily event of the sun rising above the horizon
  4. adjective satellite of an industry or technology; new and developing
    • high-technology sunrise industries

WordNet

Sun"rise`, Sun"ris`ing noun (Also<
  • Sunrise
  • Sunrising
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Definitions
  1. The first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the morning; more generally, the time of such appearance, whether in fair or cloudy weather; as, to begin work at sunrise. "The tide of sunrise swells." Keble.
  2. Hence, the region where the sun rises; the east.
    Which were beyond Jordan toward the sunrising. Deut. iv. 47 (Rev. Ver.)
    Full hot and fast the Saxon rides, with rein of travel slack, And, bending o'ev his saddle, leaves the sunrise at his back. Whittier.

Webster 1913