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单词 sunup
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sunupn.

Brit. /ˈsʌnʌp/, U.S. /ˈsənˌəp/, South African English /ˈsʌnʌp/
Forms: see sun n.1 and up adv.2
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sun n.1, up adv.2
Etymology: < sun n.1 + up adv.2 Compare sundown n.In South African use perhaps after Afrikaans sonop.
The time in the morning when the sun appears or full daylight arrives; sunrise. Often in from sunup to sundown. Also: the region in which the sun rises; the east.In modern English less common than the standard sunrise in all regions; most commonly and widely used in North America and South Africa. N.E.D. (1913) characterized the word as found in American regional (Midland), Caribbean, and formerly in South African use.
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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
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > dawn > [noun]
aristc825
dawingc900
dayeOE
day-rimOE
day-redOE
mornOE
lightOE
lightingOE
dawning1297
day-rowa1300
grekinga1300
uprista1300
dayninga1325
uprisingc1330
sun arisingc1350
springc1380
springingc1380
day-springa1382
morrowingc1384
dayingc1400
daylighta1425
upspring1471
aurora1483
sky1515
orienta1522
breaking of the day1523
daybreak1530
day-peep1530
morrow dayc1530
peep of the morning1530
prick of the day?1533
morning1535
day-breaking1565
creek1567
sunup1572
breach of the day1579
break of day or morn1584
peep of day1587
uprise1594
dawna1616
day-dawn1616
peep of dawn1751
strike of day1790
skreigh1802
sunbreak1822
day-daw1823
screech1829
dayclean1835
sun dawn1835
first light1838
morning-red1843
piccaninny sun1846
piccaninny daylightc1860
gloaming1873
glooming1877
sparrow-fart1886
crack1887
sun-spring1900
piccaninny dawn1936
1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles xx. 737 He..beginneth a newe sermon which he continueth vntill morning, and then by sunne vp, taketh his iourney.
1680 Lex Londinensis 211 Upon Saturday Sun up to wash off his Net, hale up and go home, and not to return to his labour again till Monday morning day-light.
1712 T. Banister Let. 12 Nov. in Connecticut Hist. Soc. Coll. (1924) XXI. 377 Wee Set out by or before Sun up, for Wyndham.
1818 Champion & Sunday Rev. 20 Sept. 599/1 Mechanics work from sun up to sun down, which, in the summer, is a severity of oppressive heat totally unknown in England.
1899 G. H. Russell Under Sjambok x. 105 It is a Boer custom to call and drink coffee just after sun-up.
1913 E. C. Litsey Maid of Kentucky Hills xxi. 318 This mawn'n' at feed'n' time, 'long 'bout sunup, I s'pose.
1949 Caribbean Q. 1 iii. 45 Your face turned to sun-up.
1972 B. C. Brundage Rain of Darts x. 208 The slaughter of victims in this ceremony went on without intermission for four consecutive days from sunup to sundown.
2016 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 16 Aug. (E1 ed.) 3 It is almost impossible to sleep beyond sunup; birdsong is to the bush what police sirens are to urban Gauteng.

Compounds

attributive with the sense ‘facing or situated towards the sunrise; easterly, eastern’; chiefly in sunup side.
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1884 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 14 Dec. Charley lay sun up-side.
1893 Rev. of Reviews Dec. 613/2 A brick waggon-house, recently built in place of an old pole one, is on the ‘sun-up’ side of the large building.
1927 M. M. Bennett Christison of Lammermoor v. 60 The Dalleburra might camp on the far side of the waterhole, sun-up side.
1989 Acta Criminologia 2 65/1 In cells shared by members of 28 and 26 gangs.., the 26's will occupy the sun-up part while the 28 gang will occupy the sundown part.
1996 Denver Post 13 Dec. (Sports section) c12 This relative isolation on the sun-up side of the range,..proves to be much of the attraction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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