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rainlight

rainlight noun: the dim light that occurs on an overcast and rainy day.

Noun

rainlight (uncountable)

  1. The dim light that occurs on an overcast and rainy day.
    • This one was gentle, there was a little mercy coming down with the rain; the colours of everything were heightened by the rainlight; except for the holes of bright emptiness it was a day you could work with.1996, Russell Hoban, Fremder
    • The afternoon darkened and the spare stone towers of the villages paled in the rainlight.2012, David Mason, News from The Village: Aegean Friends

Origin of rainlight

From rain + light.

Questions about rainlight

What does rainlight mean?
Rainlight means the dim light that occurs on an overcast and rainy day.
What part of speech is rainlight?
Rainlight is a noun.

Words near rainlight in the dictionary

  1. rainland
  2. rainlands
  3. rainless
  4. rainlessly
  5. rainlessness
  6. rainlight
  7. rainlike
  8. rainmaker
  9. rainmakers
  10. rainmaking
  11. rainmeter

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