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SUNSHINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
Example:
flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room
Synonyms:
cheer; cheerfulness; sunniness; sunshine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sunshine" is a kind of...):
attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
Attribute:
cheerful (being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits)
cheerless; depressing; uncheerful (causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sunshine"):
good-humoredness; good-humouredness; good-naturedness; good-temperedness (a cheerful willingness to be obliging)
Holonyms ("sunshine" is a part of...):
disposition; temperament (your usual mood)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities
Synonyms:
fair weather; sunshine; temperateness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("sunshine" is a kind of...):
atmospheric condition; conditions; weather; weather condition (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The rays of the sun
Example:
the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("sunshine" is a kind of...):
light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)
Meronyms (parts of "sunshine"):
sunbeam; sunray (a ray of sunlight)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sunshine"):
sunburst (a sudden emergence of the sun from behind clouds)
Context examples:
He never saw the sky nor the sunshine.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It made my second year much happier than my first; and, what was better still, made Dora's life all sunshine.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I seek not gaiety nor mirth, not the bright voluptuousness of much sunshine and sparkling waters which please the young and gay.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Three smaller windows on the right-hand side filled the apartment with cold winter sunshine.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Skin exposed to sunshine can also make vitamin D. Not enough vitamin D can cause a bone disease called rickets.
(D Vitamin, NCI Dictionary)
Skin exposed to sunshine can also make cholecalciferol.
(Cholecalciferol, NCI Dictionary)
The act of immersing the body in water or sunshine.
(Bathing, NCI Thesaurus)
Never was she so enchanting as at this time, when she recalled the sunshine of her smiles and spent them upon us.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
As we reached it the fog was lifting, and a thin, watery sunshine was breaking through.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Our very finger-tips seemed to meet, ere she thinned away like a mist in the sunshine.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
