Sunrise Meaning
/ˈsʌnɹaɪz/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe time of day when the sun appears above the eastern horizon.
nounThe change in color of the sky at dawn.
Sentence Examples
What a beautiful sunrise it is!
How beautiful a sunrise is!
The farmer rose at sunrise and worked till sunset.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Every morning, she woke early to watch the beautiful ____ over the ocean.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We got up early to watch the ____ over the ocean, painting the sky with beautiful pink and orange hues.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English sonne-rys, sunne ryse, equivalent to sun + rise. Compare Middle English son risyng, sunne rijsyng, sonne-rysing (“sunrise”, literally “sun rising”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Her face shone for a moment with new and unearthly splendour, her eyes lighted up with a very sunrise of joy."
— 1915, Mrs. Hugh Fraser, Storied Italy:
"It is in its zenith at mid-June, a very sunrise of Nature; and what with its forest and flower- fringed shores, its palace homes and parks, each with its white-winged or canopied yacht for skimming the lake at will, it at once occurred to me that Paradise had already been discovered and appropriated by Lake Geneva loiterers."
— 1898, F. R. Chandler, The Story of Lake Geneva, Or, Summer Homes for City People:
"In the first type (upper left quadrant), alternative industrial movements (AIMs) focus on the sunrising of new technologies."
— 2015, Matthias Gross, Linsey McGoey, editors, Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies, Routledge, →ISBN:
"As I "sunrised" and breakfasted, I saw the party of men and women that had come to Horse Camp with the pack-train filing up the long slope below."
— 1924, Claude Ewing Rusk, Tales Of A Western Mountaineer, A Record of Mountain Experiences on the Pacific Coast, page 301:
""That would be nice of you." She sunrised him again with her smile."
— 1981, Hugh Zachary, To Guard The Right, page 63:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Every morning, she woke early to watch the beautiful ____ over the ocean.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We got up early to watch the ____ over the ocean, painting the sky with beautiful pink and orange hues.