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. something that was taken out, but not used (e.g, the table was set, but the knife was not used. The knife is a "sunbeam" and can be returned to the silverware drawer without being washed).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A beam or ray of the sun.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a ray of sunlight
Etymologies
- 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.
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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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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MissEasyBreezy's list
enthasy, euphoria, fantasy, spellbind, neurotic, ecstatic, radiance, aura, innocence, glitter, glow, aurora and 26 more...
reesetee Who can resist a bird named Shining Sunbeam? :-D Sep 15, 2009