sunriser
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An early riser who gets up at dawn.
noun
An alcoholic beverage drunk early in the morning.
noun
One who likes novelty and change; one who is optimistic about new endeavors.
Example Sentences
- "He was up with the first “sunrisers” and his ax was the last to break the stillness at night."
- "When he woke that morning she was sitting up. That in itself was unusual, for Joseph is a sunriser."
- "For the ambitious passengers there is always the opportunity to jog around the deck followed up by an early sunriser's breakfast."
- "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."
- "Stefan took out a brandy flask. "Would you like a sunriser?""
- "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."
Etymology
From sunrise + -er.