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sunriser en · NOUN

Etymology

From sunrise + -er.

Meanings

1. An early riser who gets up at dawn.
   • He was up with the first “sunrisers” and his ax was the last to break the stillness at night. 1916, Anne Shannon Monroe, Happy Valley: A Story of Oregon, page 129:
   • The moonshiners are now only a memory, but the sunrisers have grown into many hundreds, with trailers and campers pulling into Red Rock Canyon days early for a good parking spot. 2003, Roberta Martin Starry, Gold Gamble, page 156:
   • When he woke that morning she was sitting up. That in itself was unusual, for Joseph is a sunriser. 1958, Jean Ariss, The quick years, page 219:
   • For the ambitious passengers there is always the opportunity to jog around the deck followed up by an early sunriser's breakfast. 1978, Brand Book, page 26:
2. An alcoholic beverage drunk early in the morning.
   • Stefan took out a brandy flask. "Would you like a sunriser?" 1978, Noel Pierce, Praetorius Point, page 167:
   • So far as I could see, the African resident likes a sunriser, an eleven o'clocker, an appetizer before lunch, a great many sundowners, and a few nightcaps. 1990, Kenneth M. Cameron, Into Africa: the story of the East African safari, page 128:
3. One who likes novelty and change; one who is optimistic about new endeavors.
   • What causes this resistance is among the great mysterious defects of national life. But is it, as the sunrisers claim, diminishing in its obstructive force? 1986, Management Today:
   • Those who put priority on promoting high tech industry (sunrisers) and those who emphasized the need to protect declining industries (sunsetters) were unable to agree on a common approach. 1986, Harvard University. Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Annual Review, page 7:
   • A sunriser goes through life open to the idea that the best may still be coming. 2013, John Hunt, The Art of the Idea: And How It Can Change Your Life, page 20:

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