Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ray of sunlight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ray of the sun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A beam or ray of the sun.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
narrow andintense (relative toambient light)ray ofsunlight . - noun Any
butterfly of the genus Curetis. - noun Any
hummingbird of the genusAglaeactis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a ray of sunlight
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Survey-ships and detectors were out; the scientists of the Patrol had been for months hard at work on the "sunbeam" -a device to concentrate the energy of the sun into one frightful beam.
Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954
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She was a very grave "sunbeam" when she set out to walk to church -- and as clear!
Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852
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That's all of us - everybody you know, everybody you love, everybody you ever heard of lived out their lives there, on a mote of dust in a sunbeam.
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It had moved out away from me on the current and was glittering like a sunbeam on the water.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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Then I admitted defeat and crawled away to the bedroom, where I lay in a sunbeam and smelled the spring unfolding outside the open window.
Ugh II ellen_datlow 2009
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That's all of us - everybody you know, everybody you love, everybody you ever heard of lived out their lives there, on a mote of dust in a sunbeam.
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T.J. gave Margaret a sunbeam smile and strutted confidently through the doors of what was soon to be his office.
I.O.U. Elle 2011
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And Max is lounging on a spare laptop, in a sunbeam.
Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009
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It had moved out away from me on the current and was glittering like a sunbeam on the water.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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That's all of us - everybody you know, everybody you love, everybody you ever heard of lived out their lives there, on a mote of dust in a sunbeam.
reesetee commented on the word sunbeam
Who can resist a bird named Shining Sunbeam? :-D
September 15, 2009