say it: DAY-lahyt
daylight is a noun meaning "the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
“the dawn turned night into day”
“it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime”
light during the daytime
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for daylight come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.