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Definition of Sunrise

1. Adjective. Of an industry or technology; new and developing. "High-technology sunrise industries"

2. Noun. The first light of day. "They talked until morning"

3. Noun. Atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily appearance of the sun.

4. Noun. The daily event of the sun rising above the horizon.

Definition of Sunrise

1. n. 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.

Definition of Sunrise

1. Noun. (figuratively) The time of day when the sun (appears) above the eastern horizon. ¹

2. Noun. The change in color of the sky at (dawn). ¹

3. Noun. (figuratively) Any great awakening. ¹

4. Adjective. Pertaining to an unusually early time of day. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sunrise

1. the ascent of the sun above the horizon in the morning [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunrise

sunny sunny-side up sunny side up sunperch sunphotometer sunphotometers sunphotometric sunphotometry sunporch sunporches

sunproof sunray sunray lamp sunray pleat sunrays sunrise (current term) sunrise(a) sunrise industry sunrise period sunrise periods

sunrises sunrising sunrist sunroof sunroofs sunroom sunrooms sunrose sunroses suns

Literary usage of Sunrise

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

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1883)
"When sunrise had grown to be quite a large girl, her parents said to each ... When sunrise had grown older and her strength had increased so that it was no ..."

2. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"sunrise i In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. The little green leaves would not let me alone in my ..."

3. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"sunrise» O cunning green leaves, little masters! In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the All the dull-tissued ..."

4. South African Journal of Science by South African Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"BY COLONEL HE RAWSON, CB, RE, FRMET.Soc., &c. Fellow of the Physical Society. Experiments to ascertain whether there is any special growth at sunrise are ..."

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