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daylight
[dey-lahyt]
noun
the light of day.
At the end of the tunnel they could see daylight.
public knowledge or awareness; openness.
The newspaper article brought the scandal out into the daylight.
the period of day; daytime.
a clear space or gap, especially between two people or things that should be close together, as between the knees of a horseback rider and a saddle.
disagreement or mental distance between two people.
There's very little daylight between the two senators' stances on the issue.
Informal.daylights, mental soundness, consciousness, or wits: I'd like to beat/knock the daylights out of him!
The noise scared the daylights out of us.
I'd like to beat/knock the daylights out of him!
adjective
Photography.of, relating to, or being film made for exposure by the natural light of day.
verb (used with object)
to suffuse (an interior space) with artificial light or with daylight filtered through translucent materials, as roofing panels.
daylight
/ ˈɪˌɪ /
noun
light from the sun
( as modifier )
daylight film
the period when it is light; daytime
daybreak
to understand something previously obscure
to realize that the end of a difficult task is approaching
Other Word Forms
- predaylight noun
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
see daylight, to progress to a point where completion of a difficult task seems possible or probable.
Example Sentences
The 28-year-old rapper, one of modern-day Punjab's biggest cultural icons, had been gunned down in broad daylight.
Ten days later on 21 June, it is the summer solstice, the day of the year in the northern hemisphere with most daylight.
“The cuckoo clock, the Dutch door, the daylight basement — humble horsemen of the domestic Apocalypse. The VWs, parked in the driveway.”
"So having been abducted during broad daylight and never knowing where I was, and I was still tortured, means that the Tanzanian government doesn't care about what people think about it," he told the BBC.
"It has been necessary to keep the road closures in place at this time to enable further collision investigation work during daylight hours."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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