Definitions for SUN

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SUN sun

Spelling: [suhn]

IPA: /sʌn/

Sun is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in SUN (nsu).

Definitions for SUN

noun

1. (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
2. the sun considered with reference to its position in the sky, its visibility, the season of the year, the time at which or the place where it is seen, etc.
3. a self-luminous heavenly body; star.
4. sunshine; the heat and light from the sun:
5. a figure or representation of the sun, as a heraldic bearing usually surrounded with rays and marked with the features of a human face.
6. something likened to the sun in brightness, splendor, etc.
7. Chiefly Literary. clime; climate. glory; splendor.
8. sunrise or sunset:
9. Archaic. a day. a year.

Idioms

1. against the sun, Nautical. counterclockwise.
2. place in the sun, a favorable or advantageous position; prominence; recognition:
3. under the sun, on earth; anywhere:
4. with the sun, Nautical. clockwise.

verb (used with object)

1. to expose to the sun's rays.
2. to warm, dry, etc., in the sunshine.
3. to put, bring, make, etc., by exposure to the sun.

verb (used without object)

1. to be exposed to the rays of the sun:

Origin of SUN

before 900; Middle English sun, sonne, Old English sunne; cognate with German Sonne, Old Norse sunna, Gothic sunno; akin to Old Norse sōl, Gothic sauil, Latin sōl (see s

Examples for SUN

She had to break the news to William that The sun had the story.

As the sun set on Monday and the search was called off for the day, there had been no positive update on the possible wreckage.

They will do it,” Revels declared, “as certainly as the sun shines in the heavens.

The nanas and poppies and grannies and grampses who flocked there to roast in the sun.

By meridian altitude of sun, camp is in latitude 31 degrees 53 minutes South.

We always think the sun drops down away from us, but it stays still.

"I ordered the sun turned on at just this point," replied her husband, with a large air.

By meridian altitudes of sun, Lyrae (Vega), 32 degrees 15 minutes.

When the sun arose in the morning he did not say "Behold another day."

He likes when the sun glances off it from the top, because it looks like the black marlin.