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- 1 The star that is closest to the Earth.
"And the cite hath no nede of the ſunne nether of the mone to lyghten hit. For the bꝛynghtnes off God dyd light hitt: and the lambe was the light off hit."
- 2 The star at the center of the Solar System (our solar system), which shines in our sky, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☉.
- 3 A surname.
- 4 The station code of Sunny Bay in Hong Kong.
- 5 The 91st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
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- 6 An English tabloid newspaper.
- 1 A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system. countable, uncountable
"Because Haestrom's sun has overwhelmed the planet's protective magnetosphere, humans foolhardy enough to venture into geth-controlled Haestrom must exercise extreme caution. Minutes of radiation exposure will overload shields and hours of exposure will kill."
- 2 A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
- 3 Alternative form of sunn (“the plant”). alt-of, alternative, uncountable
- 4 Abbreviation of Sunday. abbreviation, alt-of
- 5 any star around which a planetary system revolves wordnet
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- 6 The light and heat which are received from the sun; sunshine or sunlight. countable, uncountable
"Lambs that did frisk in the sun."
- 7 a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc wordnet
- 8 Something like the sun in brightness or splendor. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"For the Lord God is the ſunne & ſhield vnto vs: […]"
- 9 the rays of the sun wordnet
- 10 Sunrise or sunset. literary, uncountable
"Imo[gen].[…]Prythee ſpeake, / How many ſtore of Miles may we well rid / Twixt houre, and houre? / Piſ[anio]. One ſcore 'twixt Sun, and Sun, / Madam's enough for you: and too much too. / Imo[gen]. Why, one that rode to's Excution Man, / Could neuer go ſo ſlow: […]"
- 11 first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians wordnet
- 12 A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year. countable, uncountable
- 13 A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day. countable, uncountable
"Four suns since was the word brought to me from ‘She-who-must-be-obeyed,’ ‘White men come; if white men come, slay them not.’ Let them be brought to the house of ‘She-who-must-be-obeyed.’"
- 14 The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot. countable, uncountable
- 15 The thirty-first Lenormand card. countable, uncountable
- 1 To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun. transitive
"Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs."
- 2 expose one's body to the sun wordnet
- 3 To warm or dry in the sunshine. transitive
- 4 expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun wordnet
- 5 To be exposed to the sun. intransitive
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- 6 To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method. intransitive
Etymology
From Middle English sonne, sunne, from Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen-, oblique of Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). See also Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, German Low German Sünn, Dutch zon, German Sonne, Icelandic sunna; outside of Germanic, Welsh huan, Sanskrit स्वर् (svàr), Avestan 𐬓𐬇𐬧𐬔 (xᵛə̄ṇg)). Related to sol, Sol, Surya, and Helios. More at solar.
From Middle English sonne, sunne, from Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen-, oblique of Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). See also Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, German Low German Sünn, Dutch zon, German Sonne, Icelandic sunna; outside of Germanic, Welsh huan, Sanskrit स्वर् (svàr), Avestan 𐬓𐬇𐬧𐬔 (xᵛə̄ṇg)). Related to sol, Sol, Surya, and Helios. More at solar.
From Middle English sonne, sunne, from Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen-, oblique of Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). See also Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, German Low German Sünn, Dutch zon, German Sonne, Icelandic sunna; outside of Germanic, Welsh huan, Sanskrit स्वर् (svàr), Avestan 𐬓𐬇𐬧𐬔 (xᵛə̄ṇg)). Related to sol, Sol, Surya, and Helios. More at solar.
From Japanese 寸 (sun). Doublet of cun.
From Middle English sunne, from Old English sunna, sunne (“sun; the Sun”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from the heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wén-, oblique form of *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun; the Sun”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon, Old Dutch sunna, German Low German Sünn, Old Saxon sunna, German Sonne, Old High German sunna, Faroese sunna, Icelandic sunna, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 (sunnō). More at sun.
From Mandarin 孫／孙 (Sūn), Wade-Giles romanization: Sun¹.
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