sun-ray

1. 1.

   a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp

   Synonymssunray

   Broaderultraviolet

Questions about sun-ray

What does sun-ray mean?

sun-ray means "a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp".

How many syllables are in sun-ray?

sun-ray has 2 syllables: sun--ray. The stress falls on "sun-".

What is another word for sun-ray?

Close synonyms include sunray. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sun-ray a common word?

sun-ray is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.