sunshine

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  1. noun The light or the direct rays from the sun.
  2. noun The warmth given by the sun's rays.
  3. noun A location or surface on which the sun's rays fall.
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  • The laburnum trees and rose trees are plucked up by the roots—but the sunshine is in their places, and the root of the sunshine is above the storms. —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 1845-1846
  • Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. —  SecurityFocus News
  • Laughing together in the sunshine were his current wife, his first wife, six children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. —  Home | Mail Online
  • He may be able to conceal his suffering, but thenceforth he cannot be gay; human nature can only control the heart to a certain point; we may be calm, but the sunshine is all gone Thus the hours passed, with merry laughter from Hoffland and Lucy, and very forced smiles on the part of Denis. —  The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764
  • The comfort of the sunshine is a thing I cannot tell. —  The Ontario High School Reader
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  1. from Middle English *sunnesehine, sunncsine (cf. Anglo-Saxon sunscin, a mirror, speculum) = Middle Dutch sonnenschijn, Dutch zonneschijn = German sonnenschein (cf. Icelandic sōlskin, Swedish solsken, Danish solskin); from sun + shine, n.
 

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/ˈsənʃaɪn/
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