The burglar broke into the post office in broad daylight.
Source: tatoeba (19198)
Daylight
//ˈdeɪlaɪt//
Synonyms for "daylight" (104 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (31)
Related words (52)
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21 entriesbeat the daylight out ofbroad daylightburn daylightcreate daylight between oneself and someonedaylight factorydaylight overdraftdaylight robberydaylight savingdaylight saving timedaylight savingsdaylight savings timedaylight standard timedaylight timedaylight-saving timedaylight-savings timein broad daylight
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14 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 25 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- dia noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- llum del dia noun (light from the Sun)
Chichewa
1 entries- usana noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 嫌隙 noun (motional or psychological distance between people)
- 日光 noun (light from the Sun)
Danish
4 entries- dag noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- dagslys noun (light from the Sun)
- dagslys noun (clear, open space)
- lys noun (exposure to public scrutiny)
Dutch
1 entries- daglicht noun (light from the Sun)
Esperanto
1 entries- taglumo noun (light from the Sun)
Finnish
4 entries- ero noun (motional or psychological distance between people)
- päivä noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- päivänvalo noun (light from the Sun)
- päivänvalo noun (photometry: natural daylight's intensity distribution of light over the visible spectrum)
French
3 entries- jour noun (light from the Sun)
- jour noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- lumière du jour noun (light from the Sun)
Georgian
2 entries- მზის სინათლე noun (light from the Sun)
- მზის შუქი noun (light from the Sun)
German
2 entries- Tag noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- Tageslicht noun (light from the Sun)
Greek
2 entries- μέρα noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- φως noun (light from the Sun)
Hebrew
1 entries- אור יום noun (light from the Sun)
Irish
2 entries- lá noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- solas an lae noun (light from the Sun)
Latin
1 entries- lux noun (light from the Sun)
Māori
4 entries- aoatea noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- awatea noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- maruawatea noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- whaiao noun (light from the Sun)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- dagslys noun (light from the Sun)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- dagsljos noun (light from the Sun)
- dagslys noun (light from the Sun)
Nyunga
2 entries- beerit noun (light from the Sun)
- ben noun (light from the Sun)
Portuguese
2 entries- dia noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- luz do dia/sol noun (light from the Sun)
Russian
3 entries- дневной свет noun (light from the Sun)
- естественное освеще́ние noun (light from the Sun)
- светлое вре́мя суток noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
Spanish
4 entries- claro noun (clear, open space)
- día noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- luz diurna noun (light from the Sun)
- luz solar noun (light from the Sun)
Swedish
2 entries- dagsljus noun (light from the Sun)
- dagsljus noun (exposure to public scrutiny)
Turkish
3 entries- gün noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- gün ışığı noun (light from the Sun)
- gündüz noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
Ukrainian
2 entries- де́нь noun (period of time between sunrise and sunset)
- со́нячне сві́тло noun (light from the Sun)
Welsh
4 entries- golau dydd noun (light from the Sun)
- goleuni dydd noun (light from the Sun)
- dyddoleuo verb (to expose to daylight)
- goleuo verb (to expose to daylight)
Sample sentences
30 total sentences available.
I had to think about the problem for quite a while before I saw daylight.
Source: tatoeba (43751)
A gang of three robbed the bank in broad daylight.
Source: tatoeba (72657)
It was broad daylight when I woke up.
Source: tatoeba (247106)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.