SUNRISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sunrise mean? 

• SUNRISE (noun)
  The noun SUNRISE has 3 senses:

1. the first light of day

2. atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily appearance of the sun

3. the daily event of the sun rising above the horizon

  Familiarity information: SUNRISE used as a noun is uncommon.

• SUNRISE (adjective)
  The adjective SUNRISE has 1 sense:

1. of an industry or technology; new and developing

  Familiarity information: SUNRISE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUNRISE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first light of day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

aurora; break of day; break of the day; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; daybreak; dayspring; first light; morning; sunrise; sunup

Context example:

they talked until morning

Hypernyms ("sunrise" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

Antonym:

sunset (the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily appearance of the sun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("sunrise" is a kind of...):

atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The daily event of the sun rising above the horizon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("sunrise" is a kind of...):

periodic event; recurrent event (an event that recurs at intervals)

• SUNRISE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of an industry or technology; new and developing

Context example:

high-technology sunrise industries

Similar:

new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)

 Context examples 

The hypnotic stage was even longer in coming than before; and when it came the time remaining until full sunrise was so short that we began to despair.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Do you like this sunrise, Jane?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is the direction of the sunrise.

(East, NCI Thesaurus)

The time between sunrise and sunset while it is light.

(Daytime, NCI Thesaurus)

It is the direction to the left of sunrise.

(North, NCI Thesaurus)

They indicate that conditions at the rover's near-equatorial location were favorable for small quantities of brine to form during some nights throughout the year, drying out again after sunrise.

(Mars Rover's Weather Data Bolster Case for Brine, NASA)

You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly for three meals.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In truth, I was occupied by gloomy thoughts and neither saw the descent of the evening star nor the golden sunrise reflected in the Rhine.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The daisy of the field, at sunrise, is not fresher than you are.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Such a one at Ventadour ran three courses with me betwixt daybreak and sunrise, to the great exaltation of his lady.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)