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"DAYLIGHTS" is a plural of: daylight. |
Date "DAYLIGHTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Daylights The eyes, which let daylight into the sensorium. To darken one's daylights. To give one such a blow on the eyes with the fist as to prevent seeing. (Pugilistic slang.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DAYLIGHTS |
| English words defined with "DAYLIGHTS": living. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DAYLIGHTS": SEES. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You ninny! All the more reason to spy the living daylights out of them. (The Russia House; writing credit: John Le Carré; Tom Stoppard) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Living Daylights (1987) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "DAYLIGHTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DAYLIGHTS" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DAYLIGHTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Albanian | sytë. (various references) | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | съзнание (consciousness, mind, sensorium, sentience). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Tageslicht (daylight). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | ρέβω κάποιο στο ξύλο (beat the living daylights out). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | aylightsday глаза (glimmers, keekers, lights). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DAYLIGHTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daylighty, daylit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DAYLIGHTS" (pronounced dā"lī'ts) |
| 4 | -l ī' t s | acolytes, backlights, flashlights, floodlights, footlights, headlights, highlights, overflights, satellites, searchlights, skylights, socialites, spotlights, stoplights. |
| 3 | -ī' t s | ammonites, apatites, appetites, campsite, campsites, copyrights, dogfights, Dolomites, firefights, gigabytes, gunfights, insights, kilobytes, laterites, lymphocytes, megabytes, muscovites, neophytes, parasites, phagocytes, phosphorites, playwrights, shipwrights, snakebites, sporophytes, sticktights, suburbanites, sulfites, underwrites, uprights, urbanites. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-h-i-l-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: daylight. | |
-2 letters: alights, ghastly, hastily, ladyish, shadily, sightly, stagily, staidly. | |
-3 letters: alight, daylit, dights, distal, gaslit, halids, laighs, lathis, latish, lights, slight, tahsil. | |
-4 letters: adits, agist, algid, alist, dahls, daily, daisy, dashi, dashy, dhals, dials, dight, dishy, ditas, ditsy, gadis, gaily, gaits, ghast, ghats, gilds, gilts, glads, glady, glias, hadst, hails, halid, halts, hasty. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-h-i-l-s-t-y" | |
+3 letters: daylightings, distraughtly, farsightedly. | |
+4 letters: nearsightedly. | |
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