We were roused at daybreak by the whistle of a train.
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Daybreak
Synonyms for "daybreak" (45 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (22)
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Translations
95 translations across 45 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἠώς noun (dawn)
- ὄρθρος noun (dawn)
Arabic
3 entries- صُبْح noun (dawn)
- فَجْر noun (dawn)
- فَلَق noun (dawn)
Armenian
3 entries- այգաբաց noun (dawn)
- արեւածագ noun (dawn)
- լուսաբաց noun (dawn)
Aromanian
3 entries- apiritã noun (dawn)
- cripatã noun (dawn)
- hãryii noun (dawn)
Bikol Central
2 entries- alagaag noun (dawn)
- umagahon noun (dawn)
Bulgarian
1 entries- зазоряване noun (dawn)
Burmese
1 entries- အရုဏ်တက် noun (dawn)
Catalan
1 entries- alba noun (dawn)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 拂曉 /拂晓 noun (dawn)
- 晨 noun (dawn)
- 破曉 /破晓 noun (dawn)
- 黎明 noun (dawn)
Czech
2 entries- svítání noun (dawn)
- úsvit noun (dawn)
Danish
1 entries- daggry noun (dawn)
Dutch
1 entries- dageraad noun (dawn)
Esperanto
1 entries- tagiĝo noun (dawn)
Finnish
1 entries- aamunkoitto noun (dawn)
French
1 entries- point du jour noun (dawn)
Galician
3 entries- abrente noun (dawn)
- alborada noun (dawn)
- amencer noun (dawn)
Georgian
4 entries- აისი noun (dawn)
- ალიონი noun (dawn)
- განთიადი noun (dawn)
- გარიჟრაჟი noun (dawn)
German
1 entries- Tagesanbruch noun (dawn)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍅𐍉 noun (dawn)
- 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃 noun (dawn)
Greek
1 entries- αυγή noun (dawn)
Hungarian
2 entries- hajnal noun (dawn)
- virradat noun (dawn)
Irish
3 entries- amhscarthanach noun (dawn)
- briseadh an lae noun (dawn)
- camhaoir noun (dawn)
Italian
1 entries- alba noun (dawn)
Japanese
2 entries- 夜明け noun (dawn)
- 黎明 noun (dawn)
Latin
3 entries- aurora noun (dawn)
- dīlūculum noun (dawn)
- gallicinium noun (dawn)
Lithuanian
1 entries- aušra noun (dawn)
Macedonian
1 entries- зо́ра noun (dawn)
Māori
4 entries- aoatea noun (dawn)
- ata hāpara noun (dawn)
- ata pongipongi noun (dawn)
- ata pūao noun (dawn)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- grytidlig noun (dawn)
Old English
1 entries- dagung noun (dawn)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- طاك noun (dawn)
- چاك noun (dawn)
Persian
2 entries- سحر noun (dawn)
- پگاه noun (dawn)
Polish
2 entries- brzask noun (dawn)
- świt noun (dawn)
Portuguese
4 entries- amanhecer noun (dawn)
- aurora noun (dawn)
- nascer do sol noun (dawn)
- raiar do sol noun (dawn)
Romanian
4 entries- albă noun (dawn)
- auroră noun (dawn)
- răsărit de soare noun (dawn)
- zori noun (dawn)
Russian
2 entries- заря́ noun (dawn)
- рассве́т noun (dawn)
Sanskrit
4 entries- उषस् noun (dawn)
- उषा noun (dawn)
- ऊषा noun (dawn)
- प्रभात noun (dawn)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- briseadh-latha noun (dawn)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- praskozorje noun (dawn)
- праскозорје noun (dawn)
Spanish
1 entries- amanecer noun (dawn)
Swedish
3 entries- dagbräckning noun (dawn)
- dagning noun (dawn)
- gryning noun (dawn)
Tagalog
1 entries- bukang-liwayway noun (dawn)
Volapük
2 entries- delaprim noun (dawn)
- gödalulit noun (dawn)
Welsh
1 entries- gwawr noun (dawn)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאַרטאָג noun (dawn)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
I found the book so interesting that I kept on reading it until daybreak.
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The climbers awoke before daybreak.
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It was not till daybreak that he went to sleep.
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