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SUNLIT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lighted by sunlight
Example:
violet valleys and the sunstruck ridges
Synonyms:
sunlit; sunstruck
Classified under:
Similar:
light (characterized by or emitting light)
Context examples:
Alleyne, looking back, saw that the murderer had drawn bread and cheese from his scrip, and was silently munching it, with the protecting cross still hugged to his breast, while the other, black and grim, stood in the sunlit road and threw his dark shadow athwart him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nigh two months had Alleyne Edricson been in Castle Twynham—months which were fated to turn the whole current of his life, to divert it from that dark and lonely bourne towards which it tended, and to guide it into freer and more sunlit channels.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
