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daybreak

/ˈdeɪbɹeɪk/

daybreak noun: the beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.

daybreak: the beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight
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Noun

daybreak (countable and uncountable, plural daybreaks)

  1. The beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.
    • Osnabrück, reached at daybreak, is a remarkable two-level station on the lines of Willesden Junction.1949 September and October, “The "Nord Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 336

Proper noun capitalized: Daybreak

Daybreak

  1. Surat Al-Falaq (Arabic: سورة الفلق) (Dawn, Daybreak), the 113th Sura of the Qur'an.

daybreak meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

daybreak in Tamil

விடியல், வைகறை, அருணோதயம்

daybreak in Urdu

daybreak
اشا uṣā, تڑکا taṛkā

daybreak in Malayalam

crack of dawn, dawn, sunrise
പ്രഭാതം, പ്രഭാതോദയം, കല്പം, പ്രഭാതം പൊട്ടിവിടരൽ, അരുഷി, ഉഷ

daybreak in Kannada

ನಸುಕು, ಪೊತ್ತಡೆ, ಪೊತ್ತರ್, ಪೊತ್ತರೆ, ಪೊಳ್ತಡ, ಪೊಳ್ತಡೆ
More languagesFewer languages
daybreak in Gujarati
પ્રભાત prabhāt
daybreak in Sanskrit
उषस् uṣas, उषा uṣā, ऊषा ūṣā, प्रभात prabhāta
daybreak in Tagalog
bukang-liwayway
daybreak in Arabic
فَجْر fajr, فَلَق falaq, صُبْح ṣubḥ
daybreak in Persian
سحر sahar, پگاه
daybreak in Myanmar
အရုဏ်တက် a.runtak

Examples of daybreak in a sentence

  • I rose and dressed before daybreak. It’s very cold out. Dress warm.
  • These foraminifera are much like sophisticated satellites that open their solar panels at daybreak.
  • DAYBREAK in the village of Darya Boyi finds a daughter doing chores (left).

All 15 example sentences with daybreak

Synonyms of daybreak

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Antonyms

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All synonyms and antonyms of daybreak

Forms of daybreak

pluraldaybreaks

Origin of daybreak

From day + break.

Questions about daybreak

What does daybreak mean?
Daybreak means the beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.
What is daybreak in Tamil?
Daybreak in Tamil is விடியல், வைகறை, அருணோதயம். See Daybreak meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is daybreak?
Daybreak can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce daybreak?
Daybreak is pronounced /ˈdeɪbɹeɪk/ (UK).
What is the plural of daybreak?
The plural of daybreak is daybreaks.

Words near daybreak in the dictionary

  1. dayboats
  2. daybook
  3. daybooks
  4. dayboy
  5. dayboys
  6. daybreak
  7. daybreaks
  8. Daybrook
  9. daycamp
  10. daycamps
  11. daycare

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: daybreak (page history and authors); Daybreak (page history and authors); daybreak (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اشا (Urdu) (page history and authors); daybreak (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); daybreak (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); પ્રભાત (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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