Associations to the word «Sunbeam»

Wiktionary

SUNBEAM, noun. A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.
SUNBEAM, noun. (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.
SUNBEAM, noun. Any butterfly of the genus Curetis.
SUNBEAM, noun. Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis.

Dictionary definition

SUNBEAM, noun. A ray of sunlight.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats