sunshine
IPA: sˈʌnʃaɪn
noun
- The direct rays, light or warmth of the sun.
- A location on which the sun's rays fall.
- (figurative) Geniality or cheerfulness.
- A source of cheerfulness or joy.
- The effect which the sun has when it lights and warms some place.
- (UK) Friendly form of address often reserved for juniors.
- (UK) Ironic form of address used to an inferior or troublemaker.
- (humorous) Used to address someone who has just woken up and/or is very sleepy.
- A surname.
- (slang, uncountable, uncommon) Ellipsis of orange sunshine. [(slang) Lysergic acid diethylamide produced in California in the late 1960s in the form of orange tablets.]
adjective
- (chiefly US) Open to and permitting public access, especially with regard to activities that were previously closed-door or back-room meetings.
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Examples of "sunshine" in Sentences
- I'm impressed with this sort of what they call the sunshine information in Florida.
- You've been soused to the ears in sunshine, like so much whiskey, an 'now you're payin' for it.
- On such pavements the sunshine is at times dazzling, as if the surface were of burnished silver.
- I'm really impressed with this sort of -- with what they call the sunshine information in Florida.
- In America, you know, we have what we call sunshine laws, I said, hoping to goad him with a nasty little lecture.
- Suppose we put a cubic centimeter of ice outside on a summer day in such a way that all of the sunshine is absorbed by the ice.
- They discovered, for instance, that objects diminish with distance; that grass in sunshine is not the same color as grass in shadow; that a man's nose, because it projects, catches the light.
- A fun place where you can enjoy excellent sandwiches and tortas and breakfasts with a full bar and the place provides al fresco dining in a fun courtyard which, on a splendid January day as was yesterday (and today for that matter) at 85F with crystal sunshine, is a hell of a great way to enjoy a simple but tasty lunch accompanied by an ice cold XX Lager.
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