sunrise
nounverbcommon in dialogue
- United States//ˈsʌnɹaɪz//
The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
noun
- 1
The time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
I'll meet you at the docks at sunrise.
- 2
The change in color of the sky at dawn.
Did you see the beautiful sunrise this morning?
- 3
figurativeAny great awakening.
It was the sunrise of her spirit.
Her face shone for a moment with new and unearthly splendour, her eyes lighted up with a very sunrise of joy.
It is in its zenith at mid-June, a very sunrise of Nature; and what with its forest and flower- fringed shores, its palace homes and parks, each with its white-winged or canopied yacht for skimming the lake at will, it at once occurred to me that Paradise had already been discovered and appropriated by Lake Geneva loiterers.
Etymology
From Middle English sonne-rys, sunne ryse, equivalent to sun + rise. Compare Middle English son risyng, sunne rijsyng, sonne-rysing (“sunrise”, literally “sun rising”).
verb
- 1
To phase in.
In the first type (upper left quadrant), alternative industrial movements (AIMs) focus on the sunrising of new technologies.
- 2
rareTo awake.
As I "sunrised" and breakfasted, I saw the party of men and women that had come to Horse Camp with the pack-train filing up the long slope below.
- 3
rareTo cheer up, brighten, or illuminate.
"That would be nice of you." She sunrised him again with her smile.
Forms
- plural
- sunrises
- past tense
- sunrised
- past participle
- sunrised
- present participle
- sunrising
- third person singular
- sunrises
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