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day·light (dā′līt′)

noun

  1. the light of day; sunlight
  2. dawn; daybreak
  3. full understanding or knowledge of something hidden or obscure
  4. the approaching end of a task or an ordeal to see daylight ahead
  5. Slang the eyes
  6. Informal consciousness: often used hyperbolically, as in scare (or beat or knock, etc.) the daylights out of

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daylight Synonyms

daylight

n.

daytime, daylight hours, sunlight, light of day; see day 2, morning 1, sunshine.

scare the daylights out of*, knock the daylights out of*

frighten, scare, beat; see beat 2, frighten 1, threaten 1.


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daylight Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • maximize: The crystalline roof forms seek to maximize natural daylight and ventilation.

Adjective modifier

  • broad: No time, to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

Modifies a noun

  • robbery: Felix: Yes Tom: Daylight robbery had some which were illegal.

Noun used with modifier

  • summer: With very long summer daylight hours, you have plenty of time to fit in your excursions.
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daylight quotes

Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent† Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment: cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

-Addison,Joseph

Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence it† Its mystery isits life.We must not let indaylight uponmagic.

-Bagehot,Walter

   I am a daylight atheist.

-Beethoven, Ludwig van

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