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# skylight

«skylight» in Mova's school dictionary: **a window in a roof or ceiling that lets daylight in from…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a skylight, skylights)

### meaning for a pupil

A skylight is a window in a roof or ceiling that lets daylight in from above. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skylight/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life and design: attics and kitchens have skylights. In science about light: skylights let natural light in, saving electricity. In stories, someone may climb out through the skylight.

### examples

- Rain drummed on the skylight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skylight/#x1)
- The skylight lets light into the attic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skylight/#x2)
- We could see stars through the skylight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skylight/#x3)
- The cat climbed out through the open skylight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skylight/#x4)
- A skylight saves electricity in the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skylight/#x5)
- Snow covered the skylight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skylight/#x6)

### note

Countable. Compound: sky + light. Not the same as "daylight" or "skyline".

### In the corpora

- [When big hailstones fall, go indoors and stay away from windows and skylights, because hail can hurt people and break glass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/21/)
- [Old roofs often have skylights and thin panels that break when stepped on, and a fall onto concrete can kill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «skylight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skylight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.