Definition of Sunrises

1. Noun. (plural of sunrise) ¹

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Definition of Sunrises

1. sunrise [n] - See also: sunrise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunrises

sunphotometers
sunphotometric
sunphotometry
sunporch
sunporches
sunproof
sunray
sunray lamp
sunray pleat
sunrays
sunrise
sunrise(a)
sunrise industry
sunrise period
sunrise periods
sunrises (current term)
sunrising
sunrist
sunroof
sunroofs
sunroom
sunrooms
sunrose
sunroses
suns
sunscald
sunscalded
sunscalding
sunscalds
sunscreen

Literary usage of Sunrises

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bits of Travel at Home by Helen Hunt Jackson (1878)
"A CALENDAR OF sunrises IN COLORADO. IF an emperor were to come to me, saying, " O friend, empire has grown ... There is an audacity in speaking of sunrises. ..."

2. The Unitarian: A Monthly Magazine of Liberal Christianity edited by Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott (1897)
"But certainly it is to be set down as a distinct loss to the average people of the city that to so large an extent sunrises and early mornings are dropped ..."

3. Colonial facts and fictions by Mark Kershaw (1886)
"sunrises AND SUNSETS. 1. BY the medium of mere words, it is impossible to convey an adequate idea of the grandeur—the surprising loveliness we may say—of ..."

4. Among the Sons of Han: Notes of a Six Years' Residence in Various Parts of by Thomas Francis Hughes (1881)
"Formosa a beautiful island — Its loneliness — I am taken for a "Savage" — Snakes — Earthquakes — Beautiful sunrises and sunsets — My happiest hour. ..."

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