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FIRST LIGHT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does first light mean?
• FIRST LIGHT (noun)
The noun FIRST LIGHT has 1 sense:
1. the first light of day
Familiarity information: FIRST LIGHT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("first light" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
Context examples
Research at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, sheds the first light on the life of a young Rapetosaurus, a titanosaurian sauropod buried in the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation of Madagascar.
(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)
When the first light of the rising moon touched the sail, illuminating the boat with pearly radiance, Ruth moved away from him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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