break of day

1. 1.

   the first light of day

   “we got up before dawn”

   “they talked until morning”

   Synonymsdawndawningmorningaurorafirst lightdaybreakbreak of the daydayspringsunrisesunupcockcrow

   Broaderhour

Questions about break of day

What does break of day mean?

break of day means "the first light of day".

What is another word for break of day?

Close synonyms include dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is break of day a common word?

break of day is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.