dawn to dusk
Sunlit hours only
Dawn to dusk means from sunrise to sunset—the span of daylight hours.
The phrase emphasizes continuous activity throughout the day: They worked dawn to dusk during the harvest.
It often suggests long, tiring effort or thoroughness: She searched dawn to dusk without finding him.
- sunriseMorning light's arrival
- first lightEarliest morning brightness
- break of dayMorning's earliest moment
- sunsetDay yielding to darkness
- sun upMorning's first light
daylight · twilight · morning · early bird · evening · horizon · golden hour · shadows · sunbeams · birdsong · rooster · commute · nine to five · workday · hard day's work · hours · long · stretch
- FastingRamadan, Yom Kippur, Lenten fasting, water fast, intermittent fasting
- cycleslife cycle, cycle, circle of life, cycles, period
- time spanssecond, minute, hour, day, week
- time unitssecond, minute, hour, seconds, day
- completenesscomplete, completely, entire, totally, total
- nonstop24/7, always, around the clock, constant, continuous
dawn to duskdusk to dawn
Sunset to sunrise span
nighttime · night · overnight · after dark · midnight
dawn to dusknight shift
Overnight work period
graveyard shift · third shift · overnight shift · late shift · nightwork
dawn, dusk, dawns, dawned, dawning, dusks, dusky, duskier, duskiest