sunlight
Syllables: sun·light/ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/
sunlight noun: all the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun; especially, that in the visible spectrum and that bathes the Earth.
Noun
sunlight (countable and uncountable, plural sunlights)
- All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun; especially, that in the visible spectrum and that bathes the Earth.
- Meronym: sunbeams
- Near-synonym: daylight
- Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
- Synonym of sunrise.
- Synonyms:
- daylight, daybreak, dayspring, dawn, ass crack of dawn, break, break of dawn, break of day, butt crack of dawn, cockcrow
- Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”).
- sunlight zone
- Synonyms:
- photic
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.
sunlight meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sunlight in Hindi
- electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun
- धूप dhūp
sunlight in Tamil
- electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun
- வெயில் veyil
sunlight in Marathi
- sunlight; heat and glare of the sun
- ऊन ūn
sunlight in Urdu
- electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun
- دُھوپ dhūp
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- sunlight in Bengali
- রোদ rōd, রোদ্দুর rōddur, আফতাব aphtab, আশার আলো aśar alō
- sunlight in Telugu
- సూర్యరశ్మి sūryaraśmi, ఎండ eṇḍa, భా bhā, సూర్యకాంతి sūryakānti
- sunlight in Malayalam
- വെയിൽ veyil, സൂര്യപ്രകാശം sūryaprakāśaṁ
- sunlight in Kannada
- ಬಿಸಿಲು bisilu
- sunlight in Punjabi
- ਸੂਰਜ ਦੀ ਰੌਸ਼ਨੀ
- sunlight in Gujarati
- ધૂપ dhūp, તાપ tāp
- sunlight in Odia
- ସୂର୍ଯ୍ଯ଼ାଲୋକ
- sunlight in Sanskrit
- आतप ātapa
- sunlight in Nepali
- घाम ghām
- sunlight in Tagalog
- liwanag ng araw
- sunlight in Arabic
- ضَوْء شَمْس ḍawʔ šams, نُور شَمْس nūr šams
- sunlight in Malay
- cahaya matahari
- sunlight in Indonesian
- sinar matahari
- sunlight in Thai
- แดด dɛ̀ɛt, แสงอาทิตย์ sɛ̌ɛng-aa-tít
- sunlight in Vietnamese
- ánh nắng, ánh sáng mặt trời
- sunlight in Myanmar
- နေရောင်ခြည် neraunghkrany
Examples of sunlight in a sentence
- Sunlight on the skin gives you vitamin D.
- The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
- Instead of using unpolarized sunlight as my light source and then filtering it with a polarizer, I can just use my screen as a source of polarized light.2013 July 16, skullsinthestars, “Simple fun with polarizers!”, in Skulls in the Stars:
Synonyms of sunlight
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Forms of sunlight
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sunlights |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sunlights |
| present participle | sunlighting |
| past participle | sunlighted |
| past | sunlighted |
Origin of sunlight
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”).
Words formed from sunlight
Phrases with sunlight
Questions about sunlight
- What does sunlight mean?
- Sunlight means all the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun; especially, that in the visible spectrum and that bathes the Earth.
- What is sunlight in Hindi?
- Sunlight in Hindi is धूप (dhūp). See Sunlight meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use sunlight in a sentence?
- Sunlight on the skin gives you vitamin D.
- What part of speech is sunlight?
- Sunlight can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce sunlight?
- Sunlight is pronounced /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/.
- What is the plural of sunlight?
- The plural of sunlight is sunlights.
Words near sunlight in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sunlight (page history and authors); ऊन (Marathi) (page history and authors); ఎండ (Telugu) (page history and authors); ಬಿಸಿಲು (Kannada) (page history and authors); sunlight (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); તાપ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); sunlight (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); घाम (Nepali) (page history and authors). 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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