SKYLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skylight mean? 

• SKYLIGHT (noun)
  The noun SKYLIGHT has 1 sense:

1. a window in a roof to admit daylight

  Familiarity information: SKYLIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKYLIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A window in a roof to admit daylight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fanlight; skylight

Hypernyms ("skylight" is a kind of...):

window (a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air)

 Context examples 

“Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw them quite hard at work, when I looked down through the open skylight.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The swing skylights above the saloon table had been a bit open, and they had fired on us through the slit.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open skylight.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The skylight above was open, and the prisoner gone.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Evidently there was a skylight which let in light from above.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)