sun
The star that is closest to the Earth.
Proper noun
- 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. - 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […]...
- "I suppose I may have leave to do that!" Yes, she could do that, he said, but there was no road to that place; it lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and she could never find her way there. - 1886, Peter Christen...
- 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der. Proto-Germanic *sunnô Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ Proto-West Germanic *sunnā Old English sunne Middle English sonne English sun From Middle English soen, son, sone, sonne, sun, sune, sunna, sunne, sunnæ, synne, zonne, zunne, from Old English sunna, sunne, sunnu (“sun”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ (“sun”), from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen-, oblique of Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Cognates Cognate with Scots sun (“sun”), Yola zin (“sun”), North Frisian san, Sen (“sun”), Saterland Frisian Sunne (“sun”), West Frisian sinne (“sun”), Alemannic German ŝchunna, ŝchunnà, sònnò, sunna, sunnu, Sunnä (“sun”), Bavarian Sun, suna, sune, Sunn, sunne (“sun”), Cimbrian sonde, sunn, zunna (“sun”), Dutch zon, zonne (“sun”), German Sonne (“sun”), Limburgish Ṣon, Sonn, zón (“sun”), Low German Sünn,...
Forms
Noun astronomy, natural sciences
- A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
- 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...
- The light and heat which are received from the Sun; sunshine or sunlight.
- Lambs that did frisk in the sun. - c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth....
- Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
- For the Lord God is the ſunne & ſhield vnto vs: […] - 1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland...
- […] I will never conſent to put out the Sun of Sovereigntie to all Poſterity, […] - 1649 February 19 (Gregorian calendar), attributed to Charles I of England, “Upon their seizing the Kings Magazines, Forts, Navy, and...
- Sunrise or sunset.
- 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...
- [W]hileſt many an hunger-ſtarved poore creature pines in the ſtreet, wants clothes to cover him, labours hard all day long, runs, rides for a trifle, fights peradventure from Sun to Sun, ſick and ill, weary, full of...
- I love these sons of earth every mother's son of them, with their great hearty hearts rushing tumultuously in herds from spectacle to spectacle, as if fearful lest there should not be time between sun and sun to see...
- A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
- A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
- 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.’ - 1886 October – 1887 January,...
- The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
- The thirty-first Lenormand card.
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aftersun antisun catch the sun clear as the sun at noonday countersun day in the sun everything under the sun Fifth Sun fix the roof while the sun is shining fly too close to the sun follow the sun glory-of-the-sun go to bed with the sun have had one's day under the sun have the sun in one's eyes Land of the Ascendant Sun low-sun make hay while the sun shines mean sun midnight sun mock sun moment in the sun nothing new under the sun place in the sun
Noun Entry 3
- A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
Origin
From Japanese 寸 (sun). Doublet of cun.
Forms
Noun alt of, alternative
- Alternative form of sunn (“the plant”).
Verb
- To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.
- Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.
- There were lots of zany antics and we tried not to stare too obviously at the beautiful women toplessly sunning themselves... - 2000, William Laurance, Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles: Confessions of a Rainforest...
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of...
Synonyms: apricate
- To warm or dry in the sunshine.
- To be exposed to the sun.
- To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.