Synonyms for day-light
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Break of day — daybreak
break of day, light, dawn, daybreak, crack of dawn, sun-up, sun, break of dawn, sunrise, cock-crow, peep of day, dawning, aurora, dayspring dated
2. Sunlight — the natural light that is ambient in daytime, being mostly sunlight (both direct and indirect, on either…
Definitions
- n. 1
The natural light that is ambient in daytime, being mostly sunlight (both direct and indirect, on either sunny days or cloudy days).
Near-synonyms: sunlight, sunshine
- n. 2
The period of time between sunrise and sunset.
We should get home while it's still daylight.
- n. 3
Daybreak.
We had only two hours to work before daylight.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- natural light light electromagnetic radiation radiation energy
- Other spellings
- daylight
Forms
- Plural
- day-lights → lights, dawns, daybreaks, sun-ups…
Example sentences
- dawn Dawn, to the poet Yeats, is "the brightening air."
- daybreak After that was a feast that lasted until daybreak.
By length
- 3 letters
- day1, sun1
- 4 letters
- dawn1
- 5 letters
- light1
- 6 letters
- aurora3
- 7 letters
- sunrise2, dawning2
- 8 letters
- sunshine2, sunlight2, daybreak2
- 9 letters
- dayspring
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (aurora3 = 3 syllables).