sunrise
/ˈsʌnɹaɪz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A number of places in the United States:
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A number of places in the United States:
Example Sentences
- "I'll meet you at the docks at sunrise."
- "Did you see the beautiful sunrise this morning?"
- "It was the sunrise of her spirit."
- "Her face shone for a moment with new and unearthly splendour, her eyes lighted up with a very sunrise of joy."
- "It is in its zenith at mid-June, a very sunrise of Nature; and what with its forest and flower- fringed shores, its palace homes and parks, each with its white-winged or canopied yacht for skimming the lake at will, it at once occurred to me that Paradise had already been discovered and appropriated by Lake Geneva loiterers."
- "In the first type (upper left quadrant), alternative industrial movements (AIMs) focus on the sunrising of new technologies."
Etymology
From Middle English sonne-rys, sunne ryse, equivalent to sun + rise. Compare Middle English son risyng, sunne rijsyng, sonne-rysing (“sunrise”, literally “sun rising”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sonne-rys
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsʌnɹaɪz/