new dawn
Day's first light
New dawn is a fresh start or promising beginning, especially after a difficult period.
The phrase evokes the sun rising on a changed situation: The election marked a new dawn for the country.
Politicians and journalists favor it for moments of renewal or transformation, though overuse has made it somewhat clichéd.
- daybreakMorning's first light
- first lightEarliest morning brightness
- sunriseMorning light's arrival
- fresh startOpportunity to restart unburdened
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
hopefulness · hope springs eternal · genesis · phoenix · morning · enlightenment · breakthrough · renaissance · aurora · beginning · clean slate · emergence · transformation · awakening · resurrection · tomorrow · optimism · chapter
- encouragementencourage, encouraging, praises, hang in there, supports
- revivalsrevivalism, resurgence, reawakening, rejuvenation, revitalization
- changechange, flux, transformation, metamorphosis, alteration
- renewalrenewal, reinvigoration, restart, reboot, fresh start
- fresh startfresh start, clean slate, starting over, do-over, restart
- hopeful signsray of hope, silver lining, glimmer, gleam, spark
new dawntwilight
Light after sunset
sunset · end of an era · final chapter · dusk · last days
new dawndark days
Period of gloom
hopelessness · dead end · despair · doom and gloom · nightmare
new dawnsame old thing
Familiar, unchanged situation
status quo · stagnation · old guard · business as usual · dead end