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sunlights

sunlights is the plural of sunlight.

sunlights is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sunlight.

Meaning of sunlight

Noun

sunlight (countable and uncountable, plural sunlights)

  1. All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun; especially, that in the visible spectrum and that bathes the Earth.
    • Meronym: sunbeams
    Synonyms:
    daylight, sun, sunshine
  2. (figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
  3. Synonym of sunrise.
  4. (attributive) Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”).
    • sunlight zone
    Synonyms:
    photic

See all 5 meanings of sunlight

Noun

sunlights pl (plural only)

  1. (colloquial, plural, plural-only) The lighter coloring of hair in the summertime due to exposure to sunlight.

Origin of sunlights

Blend of sunlight + highlights?

Questions about sunlights

What does sunlights mean?
Sunlights means the lighter coloring of hair in the summertime due to exposure to sunlight.
What is sunlights the plural of?
Sunlights is the plural of sunlight.
What part of speech is sunlights?
Sunlights is a noun.

Words near sunlights in the dictionary

  1. sunlight
  2. sunlight is the best disinfectant
  3. sunlight zone
  4. sunlighted
  5. sunlighting
  6. sunlights
  7. sunlike
  8. sunlikeness
  9. sunline
  10. sunlines
  11. sunlit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunlights (page history and authors); sunlight (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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