sunbeam, sunray
(noun) a ray of sunlight
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sunbeam (plural sunbeams)
A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.
(Australia, colloquial, dated) An item of cutlery or crockery laid out on a table, but not used, and which can be returned to the drawer without being washed.
Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Curetis.
Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis.
(UK) synonym of sunshine
Sunbeam
An unincorporated community in Moffat County, Colorado, United States.
An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Illinois, United States.
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States.
Source: Wiktionary
Sun"beam`, n. Etym: [AS. sunnebeam.]
Definition: A beam or ray of the sun. "Evening sunbeams." Keble. Thither came Uriel, gliding through the even On a sunbeam. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 March 2025
(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
