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break of day en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Daybreak.
   • "You've got to rise 'fore break of day If you want to fool old Mr. Jay." 1920, Thornton W. Burgess, chapter 6, in The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum:
   • Because tonight I intend to play / And if you listen by the break of day / You might even say / Hey, yeah 1981, L.T.D., “Kickin' Back”, in Love Magic:
   • at the break of day
   • Well, with break of day she wakes and sits up in bed. 1897, James M. Barrie, chapter 5, in Margaret Ogilvy:
   • Wholesale buyers and curious onlookers pack Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market at the break of day. 2001 August 6, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, “Wailing Over Whales”, in Time:
   • Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate. 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet XXIX”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

Synonyms

daybreak · break of dawn