Definition of "sunrise" []

• The event or time of the daily first appearance of the sun above the eastern horizon. (noun)
• An outset or emergence: the sunrise of classical art and sculpture. (noun)

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• "It's what we call a sunrise industry rather than a sunset industry, said Beraskow."
• "Now you know, Aunty, that 's just the way people are always doing with me, and the way poor dear old Polly would spoil me; but I told Esther all about my new resolutions and exactly how good I intended to be, and that I thought I could n't do better than to do everything that she did, and so when she gets up I get up; and really, Aunty, you 've no idea what a sight the sunrise is here in the mountains; it really is worth getting up for."
• "I hope you get to see the sunrise from the summit."