daylight
Syllables: day·lightUK/ˈdeɪlaɪt//ˈdeɪˌlaɪt/
daylight noun: the natural light that is ambient in daytime, being mostly sunlight (both direct and indirect, on either sunny days or cloudy days).
Noun
daylight (countable and uncountable, plural daylights)
- The natural light that is ambient in daytime, being mostly sunlight (both direct and indirect, on either sunny days or cloudy days).
- Meronym: sunbeams
- Near-synonyms: sunlight, sunshine
- A light source that simulates daylight.
- The intensity distribution of light over the visible spectrum generated by the Sun under various conditions or by other light sources intended to simulate natural daylight.
- The period of time between sunrise and sunset.
- burning daylight
- wasting daylight
- Synonyms:
- daytime, day, daylength, photoperiod
- Daybreak.
- We had only two hours to work before daylight.
- Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pages 284–5
- Synonyms:
- sunlight, sunrise, dayspring, dawn, ass crack of dawn, break, break of dawn, break of day, butt crack of dawn, cockcrow
- Exposure to public scrutiny.
- Budgeting a spy organization can't very well be done in daylight.
- Synonyms:
- sunshine
- A clear, open space.
- All small running backs instinctively run to daylight.
- He could barely see daylight through the complex clockwork.
- The space between platens on a press or similar machinery.
- The minimum and maximum daylights on an injection molding machine determines the sizes of the items it can make.
- Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.
- We completely agree. There's no daylight between us on the issue.
- Sometimes hosts are a little saltier when the cameras aren’t rolling, but I don’t recall ever hearing any daylight between the views they express on-air and off.2023 February 17, Michelle Goldberg, “What Fox News Says When You’re Not Listening”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- Meaningful or noticeable difference or distinction between two things, especially concepts.
- There's not much daylight between saying that the universe is God and saying that God doesn't exist.
- The gap between the top of a drinking-glass and the level of drink it is filled with.
Verb
daylight (third-person singular simple present daylights, present participle daylighting, simple past and past participle daylighted or daylit)
- To expose to daylight
- […] the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable.1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 7”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC
- […] she was not looking at the daylit, sunny world which she so wanted to see.1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998
- To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
- To allow light in, as by opening drapes.
- To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.
- To gain exposure to the open.
- The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.
- Tunnels were enlarged or daylighted and clearances generally greatly improved.1964 October, “Letters: A US lesson in high-capacity freight stock”, in Modern Railways, page 233
- To moonlight (work a second, often illicit job) during the daytime.
- But I find that we have a large number of service wives who are daylighting. Some of them are not only working in the evening, but also during the day.1965, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Military Pay Increase: Hearings..., page 81
daylight meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
daylight in Hindi
- daylight, sunshine
- प्रकाश prakāś
daylight in Tamil
- பகலொளி, பகல் வெளிச்சம்
daylight in Urdu
- daylight
- پرکاش prakāś, تڑکا taṛkā
daylight in Bengali
- দিবালোক
More languagesFewer languages
- daylight in Telugu
- పగటి వెలుతురు
- daylight in Malayalam
- സൂര്യപ്രകാശം, വെയിൽ, സ്വാഭാവികവെളിച്ചം, സൂര്യരശ്മി
- daylight in Kannada
- ಹಗಲು hagalu
- daylight in Gujarati
- ડેલાઇટ
- daylight in Odia
- ଦିବାଲୋକ
- daylight in Nepali
- डेलाइट, दिनको उज्यालो
Examples of daylight in a sentence
- In those days the entire factory was lit only by daylight and was closed at night.
- We should get home while it's still daylight.
- Finally, after weeks of work on the project, they could see daylight.
Synonyms of daylight
14 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Antonyms
Forms of daylight
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | daylights |
| alternative form | day-light |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | daylights |
| present participle | daylighting |
| past participle | daylighted |
| past | daylighted |
| past participle | daylit |
| past | daylit |
Origin of daylight
From Middle English daye-lighte, dey liȝht, dailiȝt, day-liht, dai-liht (also as days lyȝt, daies liht), equivalent to day + light. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deegeslucht, Daisljoacht (“daylight”), West Frisian deiljocht (“daylight”), Dutch daglicht (“daylight”), German Tageslicht (“daylight”).
Words formed from daylight
- beat the daylight out of
- broad daylight
- burn daylight
- create daylight between oneself and someone
- daylighter
- daylight factor
- daylight factory
- daylight overdraft
- daylight robbery
- daylight saving
- daylight savings
- daylight-savings time
- daylight savings time
- daylight-saving time
- daylight saving time
- daylight standard time
- daylight time
- in broad daylight
- knock the daylight out of
- multidaylight
- open daylight
- predaylight
- put daylight between oneself and someone
- semidaylight
- the daylight out of
Phrases with daylight
- saw daylight
- see daylight
- seen daylight
- sees daylight
- burns daylight
- burnt daylight
- burned daylight
- seeing daylight
- burning daylight
- daylight factors
- daylight factories
- daylight robberies
23 more phrasesFewer phrases
- daylight overdrafts
- Alaska Daylight Time
- Israel Daylight Time
- Central Daylight Time
- Chatham Daylight Time
- daylight saving times
- Eastern Daylight Time
- Pacific Daylight Time
- Atlantic Daylight Time
- daylight savings times
- Mountain Daylight Time
- New Zealand Daylight Time
- knocks the daylight out of
- Newfoundland Daylight Time
- knocked the daylight out of
- knocking the daylight out of
- Australian Central Daylight Time
- Australian Eastern Daylight Time
- puts daylight between oneself and someone
- created daylight between oneself and someone
- creates daylight between oneself and someone
- putting daylight between oneself and someone
- creating daylight between oneself and someone
Questions about daylight
- What does daylight mean?
- Daylight means the natural light that is ambient in daytime, being mostly sunlight (both direct and indirect, on either sunny days or cloudy days).
- What is daylight in Hindi?
- Daylight in Hindi is प्रकाश (prakāś). See Daylight meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use daylight in a sentence?
- In those days the entire factory was lit only by daylight and was closed at night.
- What part of speech is daylight?
- Daylight can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce daylight?
- Daylight is pronounced /ˈdeɪlaɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of daylight?
- The plural of daylight is daylights.
Words near daylight in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: daylight (page history and authors); प्रकाश (Hindi) (page history and authors); daylight (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); تڑکا (Urdu) (page history and authors); daylight (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); daylight (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); daylight (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ಹಗಲು (Kannada) (page history and authors); daylight (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); daylight (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); daylight (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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