Sunshine

Noun

 * 1) The direct rays, light or warmth of the sun.
 * 2) A location on which the sun's rays fall.
 * 3) geniality or cheerfulness.
 * 4) A source of cheerfulness or joy.
 * 5) The effect which the sun has when it lights and warms some place.
 * 6)  friendly form of address often reserved for juniors.
 * 7)  ironic form of address used maliciously or rudely.

Adjective
sunshine


 * 1)  Open to and permitting public access, especially with regard to activities that were previously closed-door or back-room meetings.

Adjectives for Sunshine
perpetual; brilliant; sudden; sparkling searching; westering; tawny; cruel; eternal clear; radiant; embodied; vital; glancing dreaming; tingling; satin; sweet; mellow vivid; open; harsh; broad; pitiless; illimitable; everlasting; imprisoned; peaceful; unclouded; beauteous; precious; continuous; genial; merciless.

Verbs for Sunshine
drink in—; flood with—; luxuriate in—; — bleaches; —bursts forth; —caresses; — dances; —energizes; —enlivens; —filters through; —flatters; —gladdens; —glitters; —greets; —illumines; —melts; —parches; —permeates; —pervades; —renews; — shimmers; —showers.

Thesaurus
daylight, dayshine, daytide, daytime, delectation, delight, dusk, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, era of prosperity, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, fair weather, felicity, fine, full sun, gaiety, gladness, glee, golden age, golden era, golden time, good times, green flash, halcyon days, happiness, heaven, heyday, high spirits, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, light of day, midday sun, millennium, noonlight, noontide light, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, palmy days, paradise, piping times, pleasant, prosperity, rainless, rapture, ravishment, ray of sunshine, reign of Saturn, rosy era, seventh heaven, shine, sun, sun spark, sunbeam, sunbreak, sunburst, sunlight, sunny, sunshiny, transport, twilight, unalloyed happiness, utopia, Saturnia regna, Saturnian age, age of Aquarius, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, broad day, cheer, cheerfulness, clarion, clear, cloud nine, cloudless, dawn, day, day glow,

Etymology
In the Coverdale Bible in 1535, in Genesis and Exodus about 1250 as  sunnesine. Compound of sun + shine.

Derived terms

 * sunshine agenda


 * sunshine law

Synonyms

 * (light from the sun): sunlight

Derived terms

 * sunshiny
 * sunshineless

Related terms

 * sunbeam

Noun

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 * Mandarin: 阳光
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 * Swedish: solsken
 * Turkish: Güneş Işını


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