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daybreak

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Yawn, stretch my arms, glance up from my computer and realise it's daybreak and that I've been up all night...again.

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Quick take

The beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

The beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.

noun

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

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Core meanings and parts of speech for daybreak.

Example sentences

1

Yawn, stretch my arms, glance up from my computer and realise it's daybreak and that I've been up all night...again.

2

Look down to 20k and you get stuff like decorum, decked, daylights, daybreak, etc.

3

I am going to go and crawl into a foetal position until daybreak!

4

If you want a gut understanding of what we need to do about climate change, play the boardgame Daybreak.

5

I have a Xerox 6085 "Daybreak" workstation that runs Interlisp.

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For some reason he thinks the way we should be thinking about the day-cycle is to imagine a cube around the earth, with one edge above daybreak, noon, nightfall, and midnight, for "four simultaneous twenty-four hour days".

Quote examples

1

I have a Xerox 6085 "Daybreak" workstation that runs Interlisp.

2

For some reason he thinks the way we should be thinking about the day-cycle is to imagine a cube around the earth, with one edge above daybreak, noon, nightfall, and midnight, for "four simultaneous twenty-four hour days".

Proper noun examples

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If you want a gut understanding of what we need to do about climate change, play the boardgame Daybreak.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use daybreak in a sentence?

Yawn, stretch my arms, glance up from my computer and realise it's daybreak and that I've been up all night...again.

What does daybreak mean?

The beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.

What part of speech is daybreak?

daybreak is commonly used as noun.