break of the day

1. 1.

   the first light of day

   “we got up before dawn”

   “they talked until morning”

   Synonymsdawndawningmorningaurorafirst lightdaybreakbreak of daydayspringsunrisesunupcockcrow

   Broaderhour

Questions about break of the day

What does break of the day mean?

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

What is another word for break of the 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 the day a common word?

break of the 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.