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sun
I. \ˈsən\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English sunne, sonne, from Old English sunne; akin to Old Frisian sunne sun, Old Saxon, Old High German, & Old Norse sunna, Gothic sunno, Avestan xvəng (gen.), Latin sol — more at solar
1.
a.
(1) : the luminous celestial body that in the Ptolemaic system is one of the seven planets revolving around the earth
< the sun rises >
< the sun sets >
< the sun came up upon the left — S.T.Coleridge >
< was on his way before the sun was up — John Seago >
< the sun went down behind the hill >
(2) : the star around which the earth and other planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, from which they receive heat and light, and which has a mean distance from earth of 93,000,000 miles, a linear diameter of 864,000 miles, a mass 332,000 times greater than earth, a mean density about one fourth that of earth, and a chemical constitution generally like that of earth but so hot that it remains completely gaseous in spite of the enormous pressure exerted by the mutual attraction of its particles
b. : a celestial body like the sun : a luminary center of a system : another star
< a flying rout of suns and galaxies — E.M.Forster >
2. : the heat or light radiated from the sun : sunshine
< standing in the full sun in the parking lot — J.G.Cozzens >
< so beautifully tanned by the sun >
< the photographer has captured their … varying moods in sun, storm, and snow — British Book News >
3. : one resembling the sun usually in brilliance or illuminative power : one having a shining or radiant quality
< anecdotes about the man …, the central sun he became for a host of surrounding satellites — Irving Kolodin >
4. usually capitalized : sun-god
5.
a. : the rising or setting of the sun
< between sun and sun >
< a man works from sun to sun but woman's work is never done >
b. : a period of daylight : day
< but one sun's length off from my happiness — Elizabeth B. Browning >
6. : temperature produced by the sun; also : climate
< thought he would freeze there in the arctic sun >
7. : a sunlike object: as
a. : a heraldic representation of a sun surrounded with rays
b. : parhelion
8. : glory, power, splendor
< young men fresh from the wars striding … luminous with the sun of conquest — Hassoldt Davis >
< problems of the human mind over which the sun of hope seemed to be rising — Van Wyck Brooks >
9. : an astrological hot and dry temperate masculine diurnal planet which if well aspected is fortunate, the mansion of which is Leo, the exaltation 19° Aries, the depression 19° Libra, and the orb 15°
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- in the sun
- under the sun
II. verb
(sunned ; sunned ; sunning ; suns)
transitive verb
1. : to expose to or as if to the rays of the sun : place in the sunshine
< nursemaids sunning their charges beside the sea — D.G.Gerahty >
< sunned himself … in the rays of his great friendships — American Guide Series: New Jersey >
2. : to shine upon : illumine or irradiate like the sun
< dandelions sun the lawn — Philip Booth >
3. : to affect by or as if by sunlight or exposure to it
intransitive verb
1. : to become exposed to sunlight : bask in the sun
< patchwork quilts sunning on the back fence — American Guide Series: North Carolina >
< they swam and sunned and ate — Elizabeth Hardwick >
2. : to emit radiance : shine |