DAYBREAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does daybreak mean? 

• DAYBREAK (noun)
  The noun DAYBREAK has 1 sense:

1. the first light of day

  Familiarity information: DAYBREAK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAYBREAK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first light of day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

aurora; break of day; break of the day; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; daybreak; dayspring; first light; morning; sunrise; sunup

Context example:

they talked until morning

Hypernyms ("daybreak" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

 Context examples 

This was long before daybreak; and then they bustled away as quick as lightning.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The next morning, at daybreak, I summoned sufficient courage and unlocked the door of my laboratory.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I left it out, to be sent round in the morning; with a line to Mr. Peggotty, requesting him to give it to her; and went to bed at daybreak.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At daybreak they limped warily back to camp, to find the marauders gone and the two men in bad tempers.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

If it had been Silver and his lads that were now creeping in on them, not a soul would have seen daybreak.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Such a one at Ventadour ran three courses with me betwixt daybreak and sunrise, to the great exaltation of his lady.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By daybreak the boy was already sitting by the well and watching it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At this the girl and her sweetheart Roland resumed their natural shapes again, and they walked on the whole night until daybreak.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The peasant, however, made off next morning by daybreak with the three hundred talers.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He cut out the work again overnight and found it done in the morning, as before; and so it went on for some time: what was got ready in the evening was always done by daybreak, and the good man soon became thriving and well off again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)