sunlight

sunlight

English

Sunlight (1)

Etymology

From Middle English sonnelight, sunneliht, from Old English sunnan lēoht (“sunlight”)[1], equivalent to sun +‎ light. Cognate with Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”), German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”), German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnlaɪt
• Hyphenation: sun‧light

Noun

sunlight (countable and uncountable, plural sunlights)

1. All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the Earth.
   • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

     The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

   Sunlight on the skin gives you vitamin D.

2. (figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
3. Synonym of sunrise.

Synonyms

• (light from the sun): daylight, sun, sunshine
• (brightness): hope, optimism
• (sunrise): break of day, first light, sunup; see also Thesaurus:dawn

Hypernyms

• light

Derived terms

• Port Sunlight
• sunlight is the best disinfectant

Related terms

• sunbeam

Translations

electromagnetic radiation given off by the sun

Bengali: আফতাব (bn) (aftab), রোদ (bn) (rod), সূর্যের আলো (sūrĵer alo) Chinese: Cantonese: 陽光, 阳光 (joeng4 gwong1), 日光 (jat6 gwong1), 太陽光, 太阳光 (taai3 joeng4 gwong1) Hakka: 日光 (ngit-kông), 日頭絲, 日头丝 (ngit-thèu-sî) Mandarin: 陽光／阳光 (zh) (yángguāng), 日光 (zh) (rìguāng), 太陽光／太阳光 (zh) (tàiyángguāng) Min Nan: 日光 (zh-min-nan) (ji̍t-kng, li̍t-kng, ji̍t-kuiⁿ) Dutch: zonlicht (nl) Eastern Bontoc: omorkiw Egyptian: (jꜣḫw) Esperanto: sunlumo Finnish: auringonvalo (fi) French: lumière du soleil f German: Sonnenlicht (de) n Hungarian: napfény (hu) Icelandic: sólarljós (is) n Ilocano: raniag ti init Japanese: 日光 (ja) (にっこう, nikkō), 太陽光 (たいようこう, taiyōkō) Korean: 햇빛 (ko) (haetbit) Latin: sol (la) m, solis lumen n Macedonian: сончевина f (sončevina), сончева светлина f (sončeva svetlina) Malay: cahaya matahari (ms) Navajo: sháńdíín Norwegian: Bokmål: sollys (no) n Nynorsk: solljos n, sollys n Old English: sunnan lēoma m, sunnan lēoht n Plautdietsch: Sonnenlicht n Polish: światło słoneczne n Portuguese: luz do sol f Romanian: lumina soarelui f Russian: со́лнечный свет m (sólnečnyj svet) Sanskrit: आतप (sa) m (ātapa) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сунчева светлост f, сунчева свјетлост f Roman: sunčeva svetlost f, sunčeva svjetlost f Spanish: luz del sol f Swedish: solljus (sv) n Tagalog: liwanag ng araw Thai: แดด (th) (dɛ̀ɛt) Tok Pisin: lait bilong san Turkish: güneş ışığı (tr) Vietnamese: ánh nắng, ánh sáng mặt trời Welsh: heulwen (cy) f

brightness, hope, a positive outlook

Finnish: auringonpaiste (fi) German: Licht (de) n Hungarian: napfény (hu) Japanese: 光 (ja) (ひかり, hikari) Polish: światło (pl) n Turkish: ışık (tr)

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Kurdish: Central Kurdish: (please verify) شەوق‎ (ku) (şewq), (please verify) تشکی خۆر‎ (tişkî xor) Telugu: (please verify) ఎండ (te) (eṇḍa)

Verb

sunlight (third-person singular simple present sunlights, present participle sunlighting, simple past and past participle sunlighted)

1. To work on the side (at a secondary job) during the daytime.

References

1. Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988

• sunlight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• hustling, unlights