'Sunshine' definitions:
Definition of 'sunshine'
(from WordNet)
noun
The rays of the sun; "the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind" [syn: sunlight, sunshine, sun]
noun
Moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities [syn: fair weather, sunshine, temperateness]
noun
The quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom; "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room" [syn: cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshine] [ant: uncheerfulness]
Definition of 'Sunshine'
From: GCIDE
- Sunshine \Sun"shine`\, n.
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- But all sunshine, as when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness. [1913 Webster]
- That man that sits within a monarch's heart, And ripens in the sunshine of his favor. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sunshine'
From: GCIDE
- Sunshine \Sun"shine`\, a. Sunshiny; bright. --Shak. "Sunshine hours." --Keble. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sunshine'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- age of Aquarius,
- beatification,
- beatitude,
- bewitchment,
- blessedness,
- bliss,
- blissfulness,
- broad day,
- cheer,
- cheerfulness,
- clarion,
- clear,
- cloud nine,
- cloudless,
- dawn,
- day,
- day glow,
- 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,
- Saturnia regna,
- Saturnian age,
- seventh heaven,
- shine,
- sun,
- sun spark,
- sunbeam,
- sunbreak,
- sunburst,
- sunlight,
- sunny,
- sunshiny,
- transport,
- twilight,
- unalloyed happiness,
- utopia