first light

Questions about first light

What does first light mean?

first light means "the first light of day".

What is another word for first light?

Close synonyms include dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, daybreak. 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 first light a common word?

first light 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.