sunlight
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Sunlight (1)
English
Etymology
From Middle English sonnelight, sunneliht, from Old English sunnan lēoht (“sunlight”), equivalent to sun + light. Cognate with Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”), German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”), German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sunlight (countable and uncountable, plural sunlights)
- All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the Earth.
- Sunlight on the skin gives you vitamin D.
- 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
- The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
- (figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
- Synonym of sunrise.
Synonyms
- (light from the sun): daylight, sun, sunshine
- (brightness): hope, optimism
- (sunrise): break of day, first light, sunup; see also Thesaurus:dawn
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Translations
electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun
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brightness, hope, a positive outlook
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Verb
sunlight (third-person singular simple present sunlights, present participle sunlighting, simple past and past participle sunlighted)
- To work on the side (at a secondary job) during the daytime.
References
- ^ Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988
