sunups

Day's first light

Sunups is the plural of sunup, meaning sunrise or the time when the sun appears above the horizon.

The word is informal and chiefly American: We worked from sunups to sundowns all through harvest season.

dawn

daybreak

Morning's first light

horizon · glow · glimmer · predawn · cockcrow · crepuscule · early light · sunbeam · radiance · golden hour

beginning

fresh start

Opportunity to restart unburdened

optimism · opportunity · clean slate · awakening · genesis · threshold · outset · rebirth · turning point · second chance

routine

alarm

Urgent warning signal

commute · exercise · jogging · shower · stretching · yawning · rousing · stirring · early riser · schedule

Opposites
time of day / solar position

sunupssundowns

Daily endings of daylight

sunsets · evenings · dusks · nightfalls · twilights

Family

sunup

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