DAYLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does daylight mean? 

• DAYLIGHT (noun)
  The noun DAYLIGHT has 2 senses:

1. the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside

2. light during the daytime

  Familiarity information: DAYLIGHT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAYLIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

day; daylight; daytime

Context example:

it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime

Hypernyms ("daylight" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meronyms (parts of "daylight"):

forenoon; morn; morning; morning time (the time period between dawn and noon)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daylight"):

afternoon (the part of the day between noon and evening)

midafternoon (the middle part of the afternoon)

eve; even; evening; eventide (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall))

Holonyms ("daylight" is a part of...):

24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Light during the daytime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("daylight" is a kind of...):

light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)

 Context examples 

I must have slept long and soundly, for it was broad daylight when Van Helsing waked me by coming into my room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In the morning we had breakfast and were at work by daylight.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

January has come and nearly gone. The days are very short. At nine o'clock comes daylight. At three o'clock comes night. And it is cold.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The coming of daylight dispelled his fears but increased his loneliness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It looked a very fresh, free life, by daylight: still fresher, and more free, by sunlight.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Three—two and one are three—two of Dr. Barnicot’s, and one smashed in broad daylight on my own counter.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fire was needed, but the lamp was lit—as a comparison of the oil consumed will show—long after it was broad daylight.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At early dawn the country inn was all alive, for it was rare indeed that an hour of daylight would be wasted at a time when lighting was so scarce and dear.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These are all very strange circumstances, said Mr. Utterson, but I think I begin to see daylight.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When daylight comes, and she sees what she has done, we shall be lost.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)