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dayshine

dayshine noun: daylight; the day's sunshine.

Noun

dayshine (uncountable)

  1. (poetic) Daylight; the day's sunshine.
    • From the waterless land and flora, in the thundery landscape, the drying pitch of dayshine, the shine that was parching […] has actually there contracted suddenly vast masses of thunder clouds, into the thick thunder rainfall, from the cloudful sky.1888, Thomas Wright Hall, Correlation Theory of Chemical Action and Affinity, page 70

Origin of dayshine

day + shine

Questions about dayshine

What does dayshine mean?
Dayshine means daylight; the day's sunshine.
What part of speech is dayshine?
Dayshine is a noun.

Words near dayshine in the dictionary

  1. dayshields
  2. dayshift
  3. dayshifter
  4. dayshifters
  5. dayshifts
  6. dayshine
  7. dayside
  8. daysides
  9. daysight
  10. daysleeper
  11. daysleepers

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