sunrise sunset
Day's twin bookends
Sunrise is when the sun appears above the horizon at dawn; sunset is when it disappears below the horizon at evening.
Together, the phrase evokes the full arc of a day or the cycle of daily life: We worked from sunrise to sunset.
It suggests completeness, natural rhythm, or the passage of time between two fixed points.
- dawnDay's first glow
- crack of dawnEarliest morning light
- first lightEarliest morning brightness
- duskDimming after sundown
- fading lightDiminishing illumination
end of day · horizon · golden · golden hour · magic hour · sky · twilight · orange · glow · silhouette · clouds · rays · morning · evening · set · amber · pink · purple
- string figurescat's cradle, Jacob's ladder, cup and saucer, witch's broom, spider web
- SmartwatchesApple Watch, Fitbit, Garmin, Samsung Galaxy Watch, fitness tracker
- watchmakingloupe, chronograph, tweezers, screwdriver, perpetual calendar
sunrise sunseteternity
Boundless temporal existence
timelessness · stasis · permanence · stillness · frozen moment
sunrise sunsetforever
For all time
everlasting · immortality · endless · agelessness · constancy
sunrise sunsetmidday
Twelve hours after midnight
high noon · midnight · dead of night · zenith · solar noon
rise, sunny, sunlight, sunlit, sunshine, sunless, suns, sunned, sunning