Daybreak
['deɪbreɪk] or ['debrek]
Definition
(n.) The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Dawn, dawning, cockcrowing, dayspring, break of day, peep of day, prime of day, first blush of the morning.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To watch the day break in a dream, omens successful undertakings, unless the scene is indistinct and weird; then it may imply disappointment when success in business or love seems assured.
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Examples
- I was awakened at daybreak by the charwoman, and having arrived at the inn, was at first placed inside the coach. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- By daybreak the next morning, I was on my way back to my own country. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She was off somewhere at daybreak this morning. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It was that one which he had written before daybreak on the 16th of June, and just before he took leave of Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They travelled in the night, halting an hour or two after daybreak, and lying by until the twilight fell. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Three nights in the week I sleep in the mill--but I require little rest--and when it is moonlight and mild I often haunt the Hollow till daybreak. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Meet me here by daybreak. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was barely daybreak, when, with a parting look round his room, mournfully wondering whether he should ever see it again, he went out. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- At daybreak of the fifteenth day of my search I was overjoyed to see the high trees that denoted the object of my search. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I shall get off the stone an hour arter daybreak. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- At daybreak Morse was at the station at the Battery, and began to send a message through his submarine cable. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I devote myself at daybreak to-morrow morning, to bringing Doyce here. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It had set in snowing at daybreak, and it now snowed hard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was about daybreak when he had reached this decision, and he at once arose. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It had been mentioned at the Daybreak, she remarked, on the authority of the journals, that he had been kept in prison for his own safety. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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