US /sʌn/ UK /sʌn/
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noun name Freq #830

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    The star that gives light and heat to the Earth and the other planets.

    The sun rose over the hills.

  2. 2
    noun

    The light and warmth that come from the sun.

    The children played outside in the sun all afternoon.

  3. 3
    noun

    Any star at the centre of a solar system.

    That distant planet orbits a dim red sun.

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Synonyms
2 noun · the light and warmth that... sunshine
Word family
Forms sunlesssunnedsunningsunssunward
Derived forms aftersunantisuncountersunglory-of-the-sunlow-sunprotosunsun-angelsun-bathsun-bitternsun-blindsun-bonnetedsun-bunny
Related forms aphelionhelio-parhelionperihelionsolarsouthsunn

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.

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