daylight

noun

1 do the test in daylight for maximum accuracy of color matching:

natural light, sunlight, light of day.

▷antonyms darkness.

2 not many people go near it in daylight, never mind after dark:

daytime, daylight hours, day, hours of sunlight;

broad daylight.

▷antonyms nighttime.

3 police moved in at daylight to make arrests:

dawn, daybreak, break of day, crack of dawn, sunrise, first light, first thing in the morning, early morning, cockcrow;

North American sunup;

literary dawning, peep of day, aurora, dayspring.

▷antonyms nightfall.

□ see daylight

1 Sam saw daylight. “You think he might be your father?”:

understand, comprehend, realize, find out, see the light, work out what's going on, get the point;

informal cotton on, catch on, tumble, latch on, get the picture, get the message, get the drift, get it, get wise, see what's what, savvy, have an aha moment;

British, informal twig.

2 his project never saw daylight:

be completed, be accomplished, see (the) light of day;

be published, be issued, come to public attention.