sunup

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of SUNUP

the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance <have you ever actually heard a rooster crow at sunup?>

Synonyms aurora, cockcrow, dawning, day, daybreak, daylight, light, morn, morning, sun, sunrise, sunup

Related Words daytime; forenoon

Near Antonyms dark, darkness, midnight, night, nighttime; afternoon, midday; dusk, evening, eventide, gloaming, twilight

Antonyms nightfall, sundown, sunset

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