sunlight

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnlaɪt
• Hyphenation: sun‧light

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.

   Sunlight on the skin gives you vitamin D.

   • 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.

   • 2013 July 16, skullsinthestars, “Simple fun with polarizers!”, in Skulls in the Stars‎^[1]:

     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.

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

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

• light

• Port Sunlight
• synchro-sunlight
• sunlight is the best disinfectant

• sunbeam

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.

• sunlight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• hustling, unlights