Definitions for Sunshine

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Sunshine sun·shine

Spelling: [suhn-shahyn]

IPA: /ˈsʌnˌʃaɪn/

Sunshine is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in Sunshine (ehinnssu).

Definitions for Sunshine

noun

1. the shining of the sun; direct light of the sun.
2. brightness or radiance; cheerfulness or happiness.
3. a source of cheer or happiness.
4. the effect of the sun in lighting and heating a place.
5. a place where the direct rays of the sun fall.

adjective

1. of or relating to sunshine laws:
2. fair-weather (def 2).

Origin of Sunshine

1200-50; Middle English sunnesin; see sun, shine¹

Examples for Sunshine

Land of the sunshine, the deep blue sky, and snow-topped hills!

Meanwhile, in Florida, Bush was flooded with questions about whether gay marriage could possibly come to the sunshine State.

He pauses, absorbing the sunshine streaming into his garden.

It was a glorious day, and she was like a live shadow in the sunshine.

Austin, with a smile on his lips, wandered out into the sunshine in search of Viviette.

Clinton is further back in history, and there is a perception that back then everything was rainbows and sunshine and gumdrops.

Fortunately, there was just then a flood of evening sunshine in the air.

It works like this: You move to the sunshine State and everything looks beautiful.

There is a green meadow in the midst, on which rests a broad belt of sunshine.

Conservative columnist George Will calls him a “cherubic 40-year-old…a human beam of sunshine.”