What is another word for skylight?

Pronunciation: [skˈa͡ɪla͡ɪt] (IPA)

Skylights have become a trend nowadays and are preferred by most architects and designers, as it brings in natural light into a building. Synonyms for the word skylight include "roof window," which is a type of skylight installed on the sloping roofs. "Sun tunnel" is another synonym for skylight; it is a tubular skylight that captures and reflects sunlight into the room. A "roof lantern" is also a synonym for skylight, which resembles a small rooftop structure with glass panels that project above the roofline. Other synonyms for skylight include "roof light," "light well," and "dome light." In conclusion, having various synonyms for skylight provides more options to customize the design and functionality of the skylight according to one's preference and requirement.

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Usage examples for Skylight

Only the great skylight over his head showed a defined outline.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Very likely the wave that sent us in here has uncovered the skylight, and that is how it is light in here.
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh
The skylight was just above the table, which could be used in writing or to have a meal served upon, there being evidences of its having been used for both purposes at the time of the wreck, for there were papers and writing materials scattered about, and a plate and a wine glass just under it, having fallen off during the commotion of the wreck.
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh

Famous quotes with Skylight

  • I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!
    Steven Wright
  • I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
    Steven Wright
  • There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • I don't want to have the territory of a man's mind fenced in. I don't want to shut out the mystery of the stars and the awful hollow that holds them. We have done with those hypaethral temples, that were open above to the heavens, but we can have attics and skylights to them. Minds with skylights... One-story intellects, two-story intellects, three-story intellects, with skylights. All fact-collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labors of the fact-collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict; their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight. There are minds with large ground floors, that can store an infinite amount of knowledge; some librarians, for instance, who know enough of books to help other people, without being able to make much other use of their knowledge, have intellects of this class. Your great working lawyer has two spacious stories; his mind is clear, because his mental floors are large, and he has room to arrange his thoughts so that he can get at them,—facts below, principles above, and all in ordered series; poets are often narrow below, incapable of clear statement, and with small power of consecutive reasoning, but full of light, if sometimes rather bare of furniture in the attics.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
  • Friends — They are like air bubbles on water, hastening to flow together. History tells of Orestes and Pylades, Damon and Pythias, but why should not we put to shame those old reserved worthies by a community of such? Constantly, as it were through a remote skylight, I have glimpses of a serene friendship-land, and know the better why brooks murmur and violets grow. This conjunction of souls, like waves which met and break, subsides also backward over things, and gives all a fresh aspect. I would live henceforth with some gentle soul such a life as may be conceived, double for variety, single for harmony — two, only that we might admire at our oneness — one, because indivisible. Such community to be a pledge of holy living. How could aught unworthy be admitted into our society? To listen with one ear to each summer sound, to behold with one eye each summer scene, our visual rays so to meet and mingle with the object as to be one bent and doubled; with two tongues to be wearied, and thought to spring ceaselessly from a double fountain.
    Henry David Thoreau

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