Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Illuminated by the sun.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lighted by the sun.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Lighted by the sun.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Illuminated by sunlight.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective lighted by sunlight

Etymologies

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sun + lit

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Examples

  • Years later, the aide describes what happened next in the kind of sunlit, slo-mo tones they use in movies.

    ROVE UNLEASHED 2007

  • For instance, my own memory continues to clothe my early schooldays with a kind of sunlit happiness, though I was not only not consciously happy, but distinctly and consciously unhappy.

    The Silent Isle Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • For her his face was sunlit, and she needs must take it between her hands and hold it forever.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • To her surprise and relief she spied a sunlit trail and quickly began to follow it.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • We used to spend a few weeks every summer at my grandparents' semi-detached house just 100 yards from Paignton seafront and my childhood memories are flooded with long, sunlit days spent on the beach.

    Family life 2011

  • Clearly McCarthy's side can play a bit to have done so well against the best the Premier League has to offer, but, as the blunt Yorkshireman knows better than just about anyone else, survival is normally achieved by beating the teams around you, not the ones on the sunlit uplands in the distance.

    Wolves can beat the best, so why can't they beat the rest? | Paul Wilson 2011

  • Racing against someone who is a foot taller than you, and 10 years younger, poses its own issues, Ben Ainslie says dryly as, looking across the sunlit sea, he readies himself for his next big brute of a challenge.

    Ben Ainslie ready to battle for right to defend Olympic crown 2011

  • The dinning space is ample with sunlit seating facing the boulevard for people watching and also more cozy private red booths for a more intimate meal.

    Pazza Notte Is All About The 2 for 1 (Fruity) Martinis | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

  • He needed to move through that blackness to the lush, green, sunlit landscape that awaited him.

    The 7 Glenn Beck 2011

  • After what felt like hours, Destry found himself squeezing through the thickest of the bramble-trees and into the sunlit clearing that housed the cocoon.

    The Girl (Heart That’s Healing) « A Fly in Amber 2009

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