| dawn | | |
| n. (time) | 1. aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup | the first light of day.; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" |
| ~ time of day, hour | clock time.; "the hour is getting late" |
| n. (event) | 2. dawn, morning | the earliest period.; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" |
| ~ start | the beginning of anything.; "it was off to a good start" |
| n. (time) | 3. dawn | an opening time period.; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire" |
| ~ figure of speech, trope, image, figure | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. |
| ~ period, period of time, time period | an amount of time.; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. click, come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in | become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions.; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" |
| ~ understand | know and comprehend the nature or meaning of.; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" |
| v. (stative) | 5. dawn | appear or develop.; "The age of computers had dawned" |
| ~ begin, start | have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense.; "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250,000" |
| v. (change) | 6. dawn | become light.; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| sun | | |
| n. (object) | 1. sun | the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system.; "the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system"; "the Earth revolves around the Sun" |
| ~ chromosphere | a gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere (extending from the photosphere to the corona) that is visible during a total eclipse of the sun. |
| ~ photosphere | the intensely luminous surface of a star (especially the sun). |
| ~ solar system | the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field. |
| ~ star | (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 2. sun, sunlight, sunshine | the rays of the sun.; "the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind" |
| ~ light, visible light, visible radiation | (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation.; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window" |
| ~ sunburst | a sudden emergence of the sun from behind clouds. |
| ~ sunbeam, sunray | a ray of sunlight. |
| n. (person) | 3. sun | a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc. |
| ~ important person, influential person, personage | a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events. |
| n. (object) | 4. sun | any star around which a planetary system revolves. |
| ~ star | (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior. |
| n. (time) | 5. dominicus, lord's day, sun, sunday | first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians. |
| ~ day of rest, rest day | a day set aside for rest. |
| ~ weekend | a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday. |
| v. (body) | 6. sun, sunbathe | expose one's body to the sun. |
| ~ lie | be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position.; "The sick man lay in bed all day"; "the books are lying on the shelf" |
| v. (perception) | 7. insolate, solarise, solarize, sun | expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun.; "insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble"; "These herbs suffer when sunned" |
| ~ expose | expose or make accessible to some action or influence.; "Expose your students to art"; "expose the blanket to sunshine" |
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