DAYLIGHT - Definition & Meaning for Kids
Meaning 1
Part of speech: Noun
light during the daytime
Categories: Light, Visible light, Visible radiation
📖 Fun Facts About Daylight
- • At the poles, some places have daylight for months during summer and darkness for months in winter.
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🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)
The word "daylight" comes from Middle English daye-lighte. Many other languages have similar words:
- Saterland Frisian: Deegeslucht
- West Frisian: deiljocht
- Dutch: daglicht
- German: Tageslicht
🔗 Related Words
day – A related word in the same word family.
light – A related word in the same word family.
🧩 Fun Fact
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales show how creatively Middle English speakers mixed vocabularies.