How to spell sunlight

Sunlight is spelled S-U-N-L-I-G-H-T.

hear itsun·light/'sən,laɪt/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The natural brightness that shines during the day.

In a sentence: The flowers danced in the warm sunlight.

Same family: sun, sunny, sunrise, sunset, sunshine. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Sunlight is a simple compound of the Old English word “sunne” (sun) and “lēoht” (light). English started joining these two ideas into one word over 400 years ago to describe the natural light that comes directly from the sun.

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