sunrisen.adj.
/ˈsʌnrʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈsənˌraɪz/ A. n.
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a. The time in the morning when the sun appears above the horizon or full daylight arrives. Cf. sunup n.In quot. c1400: the point on an astrolabe indicating such a time.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [noun] > sunrise or sunset
sunrising1370
sunseta1393
suna1400
sunrisec1400
sunrist?a1450
sunup1572
sunsetting1575
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Bodl. 68) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Sonne-rise Sonne ryse [c1400 Cambr. Dd.3.53 turne thi Riet abowte..& with the point of it rekne in the bordure fro the sonne arise vn-to the same place ther thow desirest].
a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1976) i. 125 (MED) Þat is clepyd a day naturel, as fro sonne-rys to sonne-rys.
1568 W. Barker tr. G. B. Gelli Fearfull Fansies of Florentine Couper v. f. 49v It is so long tyll Sunne ryse, that I shall be weary.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. ii. 157 True prayers, That shall be vp at heauen, and enter there Ere Sunne rise . View more context for this quotation
1674 C. Cotton tr. B. de Montluc Commentaries vii. 329 I design'd our Encounter to be half a league from Aire, which as I had computed the time, would happen to be betwixt break of day and sunrise.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 65/2 Winds..from the West..are heavyest at Sun-rise.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iv. 35 By sun-rise we all assembled in our common appartment.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 34 After sun-rise, the surface of the snow is apt to become soft.
1867 M. E. Dodge Silver Skates xxxviii. 267 Youths whose expression never changed from sunrise to sunset.
1912 J. Conrad 'Twixt Land & Sea 164 I've been looking at it ever since sunrise.
1977 Whitaker's Almanack 140/1 Lighting-up Times,..under the Road Traffic Act, 1956, are from half an hour after sunset to half an hour before sunrise.
2011 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 26 Nov. a1/1 She and her posse of sisters..wouldn't sleep until sunrise.
b. figurative and in figurative contexts. The time or point at which something has its beginning, or begins to increase notably in extent, degree, quality, etc. Cf. dawn n. 2, sunset n. 2b.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > starting-point > from which progress may be made
sunrise1623
the thin (little or small) end of the wedge1856
a toe in the door1977
1623 E. Dalton Πολεως ναω δαϕνη 144 Whether he see it..at the Sunne rise of their prosperity, or the Sunne set of their aduersity.
1782 T. Stratford 1st Bk. Fontenoy 19 The sun-rise of Virtue, or Vesuvius, bursting into a torrent of fire.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. x. 253 The first dawn of the arts, which preceded their splendid sunrise.
1882 Cent. Mag. Dec. 225/2 The full sunrise and mid-day of oriental art belongs, indeed, to the islands.
1913 A. A. Hopkins Bugle of Right 46 'Tis the sunrise of a century!
1990 Times 25 June 38/1 Said his French Open title would be the sunrise of his career.
2006 N. Orme Medieval Schools i. 15 The written word in Britain..has its morning star, its first light, and its sunrise... The Roman conquest of Britain..marks the sunrise.
2. The appearance of the sun above the horizon at daybreak; (also) the colours and light visible in the sky at this time, considered as a view or spectacle.
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the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [noun] > rise
sunrisingc1275
sun arisingc1350
source?a1400
sunrise1440
uprest1817
the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > light of dawn
sunrisingc1275
sun arisingc1350
sunrise1440
twilightc1440
sunbreak1822
gloaming1873
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 484/1 Sunne ryse [a1500 BL Add. 22556 sunne ryst], or rysynge of þe sunne.
a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1976) i. 115 (MED) From þe est comyȝt..bewte to gres, flourys & fruth be þe dawnyngge and þe sonne-rys.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 272/2 Sonne ryse, solail leuant.
1623 A. Taylor Diuine Epist. sig. E4v I saw sun-rise, before he saw day.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1597 The gates I enter'd with Sun-rise . View more context for this quotation
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. v. 21 One [poem] on the Morning-dawn, and Sun-rise.
1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 23 He leant Into the sun-rise, o'er the balustrade.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 209 The glory of the sunrise augmented by contrast.
1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 157 I have never seen so rich and warm a sunrise.
1943 K. Wheeler Pacific is my Beat viii. 77 Get it right or this will be the last sunrise you'll ever see.
2004 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 14 June 2 The crowd..gathered to watch a spectacular sunrise at Godley Head.
3. Any of various colours associated with the sunrise; esp. a yellowish shade of pink.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > pale red or pink
incarnationa1475
carnation?1533
peach colour1573
maiden's blush1598
maiden blush1600
flesh-colour1611
gridelinc1640
incarnadine1661
pinka1669
peach bloom1716
pompadour1761
rose pink1772
salmon-colour1813
orange-pink1820
peachiness1820
maiden rose1827
pinkiness1828
peach-blow1829
peach1831
pink madder1835
flesh-tint1839
pinkness1840
rose du Barry1847
flesh1852
almond1872
ash of roses1872
nymph-pink1872
rose Pompadour1872
salmon1873
pinkishness1874
mushroom1884
salmon-pink1884
naturelle1887
shell-pink1887
sunrise1890
sultan pink1899
mushroom colour1900
sunblush1925
flesh tone1931
magnolia1963
1890 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 29 June 8/3 Best use can be made of the silvery Mohair now... Tints from sunrise to darkness.
1927 Observer 3 Apr. 25/5 (advt.) Sunrise, geranium, wisteria, russet.
1996 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Oct. (Style section) f3 This season, the collection is a mix of beach-bound separates in glorious shades of sunsets and sunrises.
2013 Belfast Tel. 22 May 12 There are beautiful bright shades such as Sunrise, Soft Khaki and Powder Blue.
B. adj.
Of any of various colours associated with the sunrise; esp. of a yellowish-pink colour.Chiefly with reference to fabric or garments.
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1893 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 23 June 5/2 Some of the sunrise chiffons are dotted with silk thread.
1928 Alton (Illinois) Evening Tel. 12 July 6/3 She was attended by her sister..who wore sunrise taffeta.
2011 K. Miller Blight of Mages (Electronic ed.) Her sunrise silk gown rustled, murmuring of wealth and authority.
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a. General attributive, frequently with the sense ‘occurring or taking place at sunrise’, as sunrise ceremony, sunrise time, etc.
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1745 C. Cibber Papal Tyranny i. 3 Voluntiers, that sport with War, that come..Jocund as Huntsmen at their Sun-rise Meeting.
1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming ii. v The sunrise path at morn I see thee trace.
1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City ix. 273 With the sunrise flush touching her cheek.
1939 Kiva 5 2 A sunrise ceremony at which the girl, facing the east, continues to dance through a series of chants.
1961 M. G. Say Electr. Engineer's Ref. Bk. (ed. 10) xxiii. 67 The ‘on’ and ‘off’ switching times are automatically adjusted by a mechanism inside the dial to allow for the sunset and sunrise variations.
1990 California Apr. 46/3 It is probably the only breakfast spot in the county that won't be a letdown after a sunrise hot-air balloon tour of the Napa Valley.
2010 RadioUser Apr. 68/1 It also computes sunrise and sunset times for a designated location.
b. Instrumental, forming adjectives with past participles, as sunrise-flushed, sunrise-tinted, etc.
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1834 New-Eng. Mag. Dec. 496 Fair as the sunrise-tinted snows.
1872 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Citizen & News 30 May White, sunrise-flushed Arbutus buds.
1920 Z. Grey Man of Forest vi. 68 The bare summit of a magnificent mountain, sunrise-flushed against the blue sky.
1998 N.Y. Post 30 July 20 The 6,200-square-foot, English-style house—razed into a cloud of sunrise-flecked dust.
2017 S. Garber Caraval vi. 46 An iridescent blue waterfall..disappearing into the ring of sunrise-tinted clouds.
C2. attributive with the sense ‘facing or situated towards the sunrise; easterly, eastern’.With reference to the fact that the sun rises in the east.
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1838 Amer. Turf Reg. & Sporting Mag. Sept. 420 Take one piece of wood and make three little wedges of the same... Stick them in a crack of a log on the sunrise side of a house or barn, two or three inches apart.
1865 Freedom's Champion (Atchison, Kansas) 2 Feb. In social life the Westerners are more hospitable and easy to get acquainted with than folks in sunrise land.
1894 A. Berlyn (title) Sunrise-land: rambles in Eastern England.
1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. (1931) viii. lxxiii. 329 The thrill of liberty stirred the souls of the immigrants from across the sunrise sea.
2008 Montana Mag. Mar. 70/1 King Mountain is an 11,900-acre unroaded ‘island’ of Custer National Forest breaks country tucked away on the sunrise side of the Tongue River.
C3. Modifying adjectives and nouns of colour, as sunrise-pink, sunrise-yellow, etc.
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1879 Sunday School Hive Dec. 185/1 A lady came riding by;..soft crimson on her lips, sunrise pink on either cheek.
1932 Irish Times 9 Apr. 8/6 The beautiful gown of sunrise yellow Irish poplin.
1960 Guardian 9 Dec. 8/5 Sunrise yellows and pinks are definitely on the way in.
1995 C. B. Divakaruni Arranged Marriage (1997) 163 In the morning she..put on a sunrise-red bindi and a freshly ironed dhakai sari.
2016 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 8 Oct. 11 The Mirage comes in a range of bright city colours, including..purple garnet and sunrise orange.
C4. attributive. Designating a new and expanding industry or business sector, esp. in sunrise industry; cf. sunset n. Compounds 4.
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society > occupation and work > industry > [noun] > types of industry generally
rural industry1735
heavies1900
sunset1906
cottage industry1911
light industry1916
heavy industry1932
resource industry1938
nuclear industry1954
growth industry1957
space industry1957
knowledge industry1959
sex industry1965
sunrise1972
smokestack industry1979
Tayacian1979
sausage fest1995
1972 G. C. Nichols in G. C. Nichols et al. Technol. Enhancem. Programs Five Foreign Countries 266 The need to develop new ‘sunrise’ industries to take the place of maturing industries and maintain high economic growth.
1980 Economist 23 Aug. 16/2 Those who try to shelter dying jobs in sunset industries, and thereby blight the prospects of growth of good jobs in sunrise ones.
1987 Observer 20 Sept. 46/4 A myriad of small, specialist software companies have also been spawned in the new ‘sunrise high-tech’ areas.
1991 Hindu (Madras) 6 Dec. 12/1 (advt.) Deepak Fertilisers has exciting news..for the sunrise sectors of MTBE.
2016 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 9 July 7 We have to focus on sunrise industries such as these, not sunset ones such as fossil fuels and mineral extraction.
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sunrise gun n. now historical (at a military base or camp) a gun fired to mark the sunrise; cf. sunset gun n. at sunset n. Compounds 7.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > signal with gun
morning gun1724
sunset gun1797
sunrise gun1872
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > signal or ceremonial gun
chamber1540
chamber piece1547
warning-piece1591
alarm gun1706
morning gun1724
larum gun1757
alarm cannon1777
sunset gun1797
warning-gun1830
joy-gun1851
sunrise gun1872
1818 J. Neal Battle of Niagara iii. 63 The sunrise gun: the heave—the wave—and bend Of everlasting trees.
1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 367/1 After the sunrise-gun had boomed.
1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake (2016) at Gunfire The sunrise gun coincided with the time at which troops could get a cup of tea from the cookhouse, the first of the day.
1947 Washington Post 18 June b4/2 You'd think so if you had that sunrise gun at Fort Myer going off under your window at 6:30 every morning.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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