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/sˈənʃˌaɪn/ Listen

noun

Sunshine n.

The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give. "But all sunshine, as when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator."

Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness. "That man that sits within a monarch's heart, And ripens in the sunshine of his favor."

adjective

Sunshine adj. Sunshiny; bright. "Sunshine hours."

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Etymology of 'Sunshine'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sunshine" Quotes from Famous Books

... mud-stains. I had never seen Jim look so grave, so self-possessed, in an impenetrable, impressive way. In the midst of these dark-faced men, his stalwart figure in white apparel, the gleaming clusters of his fair hair, seemed to catch all the sunshine that trickled through the cracks in the closed shutters of that dim hall, with its walls of mats and a roof of thatch. He appeared like a creature not only of another kind but of another essence. Had they not seen him come up in a canoe they might have thought ...

— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad

... when she was serious and old, when she walked beside him in the street in the hat with the curling feather, when she sat on the hearthrug in her rose-hued dress crooning songs in her soft, sweet voice. Always, and always, he loved her; she had crept into his heart like a ray of sunshine lighting up unused rooms; she had melted his coldness, as the south wind melts the frost. He loved Pixie, and Pixie was going to ...

— The Love Affairs of Pixie • Mrs George de Horne Vaizey

... like a mane; her robe opened and closed. The sunshine of the blue eye mingled with the fire of the black one. ...

— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo

... ever since morning, he turned up to the right again, and only felt safe when he at last stood before the great doorway, where he could not be seen from the parsonage. The front of the church, quite bare and worn by the sunshine and rain of years, was crowned by a narrow open stone belfry, in which a small bell showed its black silhouette, whilst its rope disappeared through the tiles. Six broken steps, on one side half buried in the earth, led up to the lofty arched door, now cracked, smothered ...

— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola

... and following the Great Match, there had been a return of that frank and open bearing that had characterised the employees of the Maitland Mills in the old days, but that fleeting gleam of sunshine had faded out and the old grey shadow of suspicion, of discontent, had fallen again. To Maitland this attitude brought a disappointment and a resentment which sensibly added to his burden, already heavy enough in these days of weakening ...

— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor

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