sunriser

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   An alcoholic beverage drunk early in the morning.

   • 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.
3. 3

   One who likes novelty and change

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

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

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