break of day
When night ends
Break of day is the moment when dawn arrives and darkness gives way to light.
The phrase is slightly literary or poetic compared to everyday alternatives like sunrise or daybreak: We set out at break of day.
It emphasizes the transitional instant rather than the gradual brightening.
Earliest morning brightness
- sunriseMorning light's arrival
- sunupMorning's first light
- auroraAtmospheric light display
- cockcrowDawn, announced by fowl
crack of dawn · early light · twilight · crepuscule · glimmer · lightening · pre-dawn · dawning
Day's first eating
- coffeeBrewed bean beverage
- alarmUrgent warning signal
- roosterMale domestic fowl
- wakingRegaining consciousness from sleep
stretching · yawning · freshness · dew · birdsong · commute · routine · shower
Desire for good outcomes
- new beginningChance to start again
- opportunityFavorable circumstance for advancement
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
- renewalMaking current again
fresh start · optimism · promise · turning point · clean slate · second chance · transformation · awakening
first light
Earliest morning brightness
cockcrow · crack of dawn · early light · twilight · crepuscule · glimmer · lightening · pre-dawn · dawning · horizon
breakfast
Day's first eating
waking · stretching · yawning · freshness · dew · birdsong · commute · routine · shower · early riser
hope
Desire for good outcomes
- new beginningChance to start again
- opportunityFavorable circumstance for advancement
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
renewal · fresh start · optimism · promise · turning point · clean slate · second chance · transformation · awakening · enlightenment
stirring
Arousing strong emotion
- rousingExciting strong feeling
- risingAct of ascending
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
alertness · renewal · beginning · emergence · rebirth · revival · fresh start · promise · hope · possibility
- morningmorning, sunrise, dawn, mid-morning, early morning
- dawnsunrise, dawn, first light, sunup, dayspring
- beginningsbegin, beginning, start, first, opening
break of daynightfall
Onset of darkness
dusk · sunset · sundown · twilight · end of day
break of daydead of night
Darkest part of evening
midnight · witching hour · darkness · night · small hours
break, day, daily, broken, today, days, breaking, birthday, daybreak