sunrise

1. 1.

   of an industry or technology; new and developing

   “high-technology sunrise industries”

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Other forms of sunrise

plural

sunrises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sunrise

What does sunrise mean?

sunrise means "the first light of day". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sunrise?

sunrise has 2 syllables: sun-rise. The stress falls on "sun". In IPA it is /ˈsʌnˌɹaɪz/.

What is another word for sunrise?

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.

What is the opposite of sunrise?

The recorded antonyms are sunset.

Is sunrise a common word?

sunrise is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sunrise?

1 word rhymes with sunrise. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.