sunriser

plural sunrisers

1. An early riser who gets up at dawn.

   He was up with the first “sunrisers” and his ax was the last to break the stillness at night.

   1916, Anne Shannon Monroe, Happy Valley: A Story of Oregon, page 129

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   When he woke that morning she was sitting up. That in itself was unusual, for Joseph is a sunriser.

   1958, Jean Ariss, The quick years, page 219

   For the ambitious passengers there is always the opportunity to jog around the deck followed up by an early sunriser's breakfast.

   1978, Brand Book, page 26

   The moonshiners are now only a memory, but the sunrisers have grown into many hundreds, with trailers and campers pulling into Red Rock Canyon days early for a good parking spot.

   2003, Roberta Martin Starry, Gold Gamble, page 156

2. An alcoholic beverage drunk early in the morning.

   Stefan took out a brandy flask. "Would you like a sunriser?"

   1978, Noel Pierce, Praetorius Point, page 167

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   So far as I could see, the African resident likes a sunriser, an eleven o'clocker, an appetizer before lunch, a great many sundowners, and a few nightcaps.

   1990, Kenneth M. Cameron, Into Africa: the story of the East African safari, page 128

3. One who likes novelty and change; one who is optimistic about new endeavors.

   A sunriser goes through life open to the idea that the best may still be coming.

   2013, John Hunt, The Art of the Idea: And How It Can Change Your Life, page 20

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   What causes this resistance is among the great mysterious defects of national life. But is it, as the sunrisers claim, diminishing in its obstructive force?

   1986, Management Today

   Those who put priority on promoting high tech industry (sunrisers) and those who emphasized the need to protect declining industries (sunsetters) were unable to agree on a common approach.

   1986, Harvard University. Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Annual Review, page 7