sunlight
/ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.86 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun; especially, that in the visible spectrum and that bathes the Earth.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Meronym: sunbeams"
- "Near-synonym: daylight"
- "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. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll."
- "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."
- "sunlight zone"
Etymology
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”).