Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A ray of sunlight.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A ray of the sun.
Wiktionary
- n. A narrow and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.
- n. Any butterfly of the genus Curetis.
- n. Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A beam or ray of the sun.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a ray of sunlight
Etymologies
- From sun + beam. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English sunnebem, from Old English sunnebēam (translation of Late Latin columna lūcis, pillar of light) : sunne, sun; see sun + bēam, tree, building post; see beam. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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
“She was a very grave "sunbeam" when she set out to walk to church -- and as clear!”
“T.J. gave Margaret a sunbeam smile and strutted confidently through the doors of what was soon to be his office.”
“It had moved out away from me on the current and was glittering like a sunbeam on the water.”
“And Max is lounging on a spare laptop, in a sunbeam.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Complaint Department: I shall nap in this sunbeam, and all shall be well.”
ain't no rest for the wicked, until we close our eyes at last
“They swam until the first sunbeam crested our Ishtar Gate and roused the city from its slumber.”
“Its climax is not an emotional catharsis but rather the radiance of that third movement: music as shining and direct as rainwater in a sunbeam.”
The Washington Post: Music review: Post-Classical Ensemble recognizes the work of Lou Harrison
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sunbeam’.
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
money cowrie, bedraggle, omphalos, ineluctable, postprandial, bladderwrack, modality barnacle..., loofah, shipworm, cither, embattle, Malachi and 503 more...
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color (yellow)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, yellow, descriptive, randomness )yellow, Yellow, Cloud, Straw/Stramineous, Peach, Apricot/Ibis, Lemon, Butter, Mustard, Meline/Canary, Gold(Metallic, Web and 405 more...
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Beams
laser beam, laserbeam, beam, beams, Beam, Gaussian beam, Jim Beam, balance beam, beaming, beamed, sunbeam, moonbeam and 41 more...
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MissEasyBreezy's list
enthasy, euphoria, fantasy, spellbind, neurotic, ecstatic, radiance, aura, innocence, glitter, glow, aurora and 26 more...
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Sun Words
heliotrope, heliograph, aphelion, heliocentric, perihelion, heliosphere, heliosheath, heliopause, heliophysics, heliotail, heliocentrism, helioseismology and 50 more...
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My Little Ponies
A list of My Little Pony names from the original (G1) collection. 1982-1992
cotton candy, butterscotch, blossom, blue belle, minty, snuzzle, seashell, bubbles, bow tie, applejack, sunbeam, medley and 352 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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to be sorted
litter, palanquin, aver, catamite, phlox, pliant, modicum, poorthink, cow, decalogue, caveat, dais and 175 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 722 more...
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I Am the...
Adjectives that describe what I may or may not be or whom to some I might appear to be...
charlatan, pimp, degenerate, miscreant, painter, creator, trouper, do-gooder, chum, chump, genius, gentlewoman and 41 more...
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Life's a beach
hot, tired, car, driving, radio, coast range, 101, neahkahnie mountain, gravel, crunching, shoes off, curtains drawn and 41 more...
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★ ☄ ☆ ☾
starlight, star bright.
constellation, galaxy, stardust, solar, sunbeam, aurora, entropic, meteor, Pleiades, asterism, lunar, moonlet and 11 more...
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librarymistress's Words
lachrymose, dandelion, marygold, dreamy, librarian, jot, prinzipienreiter, quargel, stupefy, expelliarmus, alohomora, morsmordre and 86 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sunbeam.
reesetee Who can resist a bird named Shining Sunbeam? :-D Sep 15, 2009