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sunbright

sunbright adjective: full of sunshine; bright like the sun or shining with reflected sunlight.

Adjective

sunbright (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Full of sunshine; bright like the sun or shining with reflected sunlight.
    • And with our Sun-bright armour as we march,
      Weel chaſe the Starrs from heauen, and dim their eies
      That ſtand and muſe at our admyred armes.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
    • Have you heard, have you heard of the sunbright clime,
      Undimmed by sorrow, unhurt by time;
      Where age hath no power o'er the fadeless frame,
      Where the eye is fire and the heart is flame —
      Have you heard of that sunbright clime?1868, “The Sunbright Clime”, in Jessie Oglethorpe: or The Story of a Daughter's Devotion and Other Tales, page 301

Origin of sunbright

From sun + bright.

Questions about sunbright

What does sunbright mean?
Sunbright means full of sunshine; bright like the sun or shining with reflected sunlight.
What part of speech is sunbright?
Sunbright is an adjective.

Words near sunbright in the dictionary

  1. sunbows
  2. sunbreak
  3. sunbreaks
  4. sunbrella
  5. sunbrellas
  6. sunbright
  7. sunbrowned
  8. sunbunnies
  9. sunbunny
  10. sunburn
  11. sunburned

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