Sunbeam

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  • noun. A ray of sunlight.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A ray of the sun.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A beam or ray of the sun.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A narrow and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.
  • noun. Any butterfly of the genus Curetis.
  • noun. Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a ray of sunlight
  • Word Usage
    "Survey-ships and detectors were out; the scientists of the Patrol had been for months hard at work on the "sunbeam" -a device to concentrate the energy of the sun into one frightful beam."
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    broad day  dawn  day  day glow  daylight