DAYBREAKS Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

daybreaks

noun

plural of daybreak

as in days

the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance I always seem to wake up at daybreak, regardless of what the clock says

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Noun

Usually a cold front blows through a few days before the dove season opener.

— Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2026
Having both arrived just a few days ago, these were good starts, but of course more is expected.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of days

Noun

Ewa Mroczkowska’s production design also turns dewy embankments, decadent interiors, and sunrises over cemeteries into visions of storybook-like decay.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
That sunlight passing through Earth's atmosphere, where the blues are scattered away, and the reds are bent towards the moon, essentially casts the colors of the Earth's sunrises and sunsets onto the lunar surface.

— Marina Jurica, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of sunrises

Noun

Through the long mornings at Halas Hall; during joint practices in Cincinnati and Nashville; over 89 snaps of preseason game action, the rookie emerged rather quickly.

— Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
The original show was utterly forgettable, but recognizable to Cartoon Network’s early adult audiences who would have been kids watching whatever aired on Saturday mornings in the ’60s.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of mornings

Noun

Morning dawns gray and dismal, but the rain has almost ended.

— Ralph Tuttle, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026
Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.

— Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

Definition of dawns

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