Meanings
daybreak1
plural daybreaks
- countableuncountableThe beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.
Osnabrück, reached at daybreak, is a remarkable two-level station on the lines of Willesden Junction.
1949 September and October, “The "Nord Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 336Synonyms: sunrise, sunlight, daylight, break of day, break of dawn, crack of dawn, dawn, ass crack of dawn · Antonyms: dusk, nightfall, cockshut, crepusculum, dark, dimmity, duckish, dusk
Daybreak2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe first light of day
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Ancient Greek ὄρθρος, ἠώς
- ὄρθρος (órthros)dawn
- ἠώς (ēṓs)dawn
Arabic فَجْر, فَلَق
- فَجْر (fajr)dawn
- فَلَق (falaq)dawn
- صُبْح (ṣubḥ)dawn
Bulgarian зазоряване
- зазоряване (zazorjavane)dawn
Catalan alba
- albadawn
Chinese Mandarin 黎明, 拂曉 /拂晓
- 黎明 (límíng)dawn
- 拂曉 /拂晓 (fúxiǎo)dawn
- 破曉 /破晓 (pòxiǎo)dawn
- 晨 (chén)dawn
Czech úsvit, svítání
- úsvitdawn
- svítánídawn
Danish daggry
- daggrydawn
Dutch dageraad
- dageraaddawn
Esperanto tagiĝo
- tagiĝodawn
Finnish aamunkoitto
- aamunkoittodawn
French point du jour
- point du jourdawn
German Tagesanbruch
- Tagesanbruchdawn
Greek αυγή
- αυγή (avgí)dawn
Hungarian virradat, hajnal
- virradatdawn
- hajnaldawn
Irish briseadh an lae, amhscarthanach
- briseadh an laedawn
- amhscarthanachdawn
- camhaoirdawn
- bánú an laedawn
Italian alba
- albadawn
Japanese 夜明け, 黎明
- 夜明け (yoake)dawn
- 黎明 (reimei)dawn
Latin aurora, dīlūculum
- auroradawn
- dīlūculumdawn
- galliciniumdawn
Lithuanian aušra
- aušradawn
Māori ata pongipongi, aoatea
- ata pongipongidawn
- aoateadawn
- ata hāparadawn
- hāparadawn
- haeatadawn
- puatadawn
- maruatadawn
- ata pūaodawn
Norwegian Bokmål grytidlig
- grytidligdawn
Persian سحر, پگاه
- سحر (sahar)dawn
- پگاهdawn
Polish świt, brzask
- świtdawn
- brzaskdawn
Portuguese amanhecer, raiar do sol
- amanhecerdawn
- raiar do soldawn
- nascer do soldawn
- auroradawn
Romanian răsărit de soare, zori
- răsărit de soaredawn
- zoridawn
- aurorădawn
- albădawn
Russian рассве́т, заря́
- рассве́т (rassvét)dawn
- заря́ (zarjá)dawn
Scottish Gaelic briseadh-latha
- briseadh-lathadawn
Spanish amanecer
- amanecerdawn
Swedish gryning, dagning
- gryningdawn
- dagningdawn
- dagbräckningdawn
Tagalog bukang-liwayway
- bukang-liwaywaydawn
Welsh gwawr
- gwawrdawn
Yiddish פֿאַרטאָג
- פֿאַרטאָג (fartog)dawn
Cite this entry
daybreak. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daybreak
“daybreak.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daybreak. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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