Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lighted by the sun; sunlit.

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Examples

  • A heavy snow-storm was expected, and all the sky — that vast dome which spans the Plains — was overcast; but over the mountains it was a deep, still, sad blue, into which snowy peaks rose sunlighted.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • She was presumably carrying out a careful telescopic examination of the sunlighted side of Phobos.

    Expedition to Earth Clarke, Arthur C. 1953

  • They were speeding through a sunlighted country of olive trees and flowers in bloom -- a warm world and tender.

    The Triflers Frederick Orin Bartlett

  • She shut her stiff lids and saw Thornly coming over the sunlighted Hills with his joy-filled face, shining in the summer day!

    Janet of the Dunes

  • Heavy walnut presses, carved and black with age, stood against the walls, drinking-glasses and candlesticks sparkled on a dark bureau-top, there was a bright picture or two, and the sunlighted tinware of a house at the other side of the street threw a cluster of tiny rays like a bouquet of light in at the window.

    Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

  • Drew was looking over the sunlighted hills and thinking of that lovely, dreaming face of a year ago.

    Joyce of the North Woods

  • In conscious adjustment to the happy present, neither past nor future clouds their clear, sunlighted skies.

    Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Carson Jay Lee

  • Something was born, and something died in the sunlighted room while that silence lasted.

    Joyce of the North Woods

  • The big, cheerful, sunlighted room full of grown-ups and children, talking together, even laughing out loud at times, did not look like any sophisticated idea of a library, for Hillsboro was as benighted on the subject of the need for silence in a reading-room as on all other up-to-date library theories.

    Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • Money had been spent without stint to produce beauty in its most subtle expression; each window framed a view of sea or sky or of sunlighted trees; the walls, the hangings, the rugs were of that ashes-of-rose tint which give light to an interior without glare.

    Glory of Youth Temple Bailey 1912

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