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# daybreak

«daybreak» in Mova's school dictionary: **The time in the early morning when light first appears in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (daybreak)

### meaning for a pupil

The time in the early morning when light first appears in the sky; dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daybreak/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories daybreak marks the start of a journey or the end of a long night; in science it links to sunrise and the Earth turning. Phrases: «at daybreak», «before daybreak», «from daybreak till dusk».

### examples

- We set off at daybreak to catch the early ferry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daybreak/#x1)
- The rooster crows at daybreak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daybreak/#x2)
- The soldiers waited until daybreak to cross the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daybreak/#x3)
- Farmers often work from daybreak till dusk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daybreak/#x4)
- By daybreak the snow had covered the whole garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daybreak/#x5)
- Birds sing loudest just before daybreak, in the dawn chorus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daybreak/#x6)
- Daybreak comes earlier in summer than in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daybreak/#x7)
- At daybreak Jack rose and went out into the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daybreak/#x8)

### note

Uncountable, usually with «at»: «at daybreak». Means the same as «dawn» and «first light»; opposite «dusk», «nightfall». Daybreak is a little before sunrise, when the sky already lightens but the Sun is not yet up.

### In the corpora

- [So hath Beth-el done unto you because of your great wickedness; at daybreak is the king of Israel utterly cut off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.153/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «daybreak» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daybreak/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.