sunbeam

1. A ray of sunlight; especially, a demarcated, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight (as revealed by, for example, its diffraction among dust particles).

   Near-synonym: sunshaft (narrow, demarcated)

   Sonnenstrahl

   со́лнечный лучsólnečnyj luč

2. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Curetis.

3. Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis.

4. (UK)Synonym of sunshine (“ironic form of address to an inferior or troublemaker”).

5. (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.

1. The sunbeam acts upon the skin.

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2. Dawn's dew evaporates in the mild sunbeams.

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3. The morning dew evaporated in the first sunbeams.

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4. The black cat napped peacefully in the sunbeam.

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5. The first sunbeam, she knew, would be her death.

   deDer erste Sonnenstrahl, das wusste sie, wäre ihr Tod.

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