sun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭn
ipa: /sʌn/
ipa: /sʊn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: son
Forms: form: suns
form: Sun
form: sonne
form: sunne
form: ☉
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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Haestrom Codex entry:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
examples: text: Lambs that did frisk in the sun.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: 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.
ref: 1835, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Knight of Provençe, and His Proposal”, in Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book II (The Revolution), page 184:
glosses: The light and heat which are received from the sun; sunshine or sunlight.
examples: text: For the Lord God is the ſunne & ſhield vnto vs: […]
ref: 1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, Psalmes 84:11, folio 253, recto, column 2:
text: […] I will never conſent to put out the Sun of Sovereigntie to all Poſterity, […]
ref: 1649 February 19 (Gregorian calendar), attributed to Charles I of England, “Upon their seizing the Kings Magazines, Forts, Navy, and Militia”, in Έἰκὼν Βασιλική [Éikṑn Basilikḗ]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings: […], [London: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams], →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
examples: text: 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: […]
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 381, columns 1–2:
text: [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 paine and griefe, is in great diſtreſſe and ſorrow of heart.
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Discontents, Cares, Miseries, &c. causes”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 2, member 3, subsection 10, page 110:
text: 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 them all, and the sun does not wait more than in haying-time.
ref: 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, published 1873, page 357:
text: You see, the President has five jobs, any one of which would be more than a full-time job for one man; but I have to do all five of them between sun and sun.
ref: 1962, Harry S. Truman, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, page 651:
text: “Tomorrow at first sun.” Not being much of a morning person, she winced internally. “First sun?” “It is the proper time, when the flowers of the pohoroh first open to the light.”
ref: 1997, Alan Dean Foster, Howling Stones, page 149:
glosses: Sunrise or sunset.
glosses: A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
examples: text: 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.’
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
glosses: The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The thirty-first Lenormand card.
Derived terms: 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
protosun
purple glory-of-the-sun
rise with the sun
Rising Sun
stink like a mackerel in the sun
sun and planet gear
sun anemone shrimp
sunangel
sun-angel
sunback
sunbake
sun ball
sun-bath
sun bath
sunbath
sunbathe
sunbeam
sun bear
sunbeaten
sunbed
sun beetle
sunbelt
sunberry
sunbird
sunbittern
sun bittern
sun-bittern
sunbleached
sunbleak
sun blind
sunblind
sun-blind
sunblocking
sunblock
sun block
sunbloom
sunblotch
sunblush
sunbonneted
sun-bonneted
sunbonnet
sun bonnet
sunbow
sunbreak
sunbrella
sunbright
sunbrowned
sun-bunny
sun bunny
sunburn
sun-burner
sunburnt
sunburst
sun candle
suncap
suncapped
suncare
suncatcher
sunchair
sun-chaser
sunchoke
Sun City
Suncoast
suncolored
suncrack
suncream
sun cream
sun cross
suncup
sun cure
sundae
sundance
Sundance
sun dance
sun-darts
sundawn
Sunday
Sundayfied
sun deck
sundeck
sundew
sundial
sun disc
sundisk
sun dog
sundog
sundown
sun-drenched
sundress
sun-dried
sundrops
sun-dry
sunfall
sunfast
sun fever
sun-fever
sunfilled
sun filter
sunfish
sunfleck
sunflower
sunfringed
sunfrock
sunfruit
sungazer
sungazing
sun gear
sunglade
sunglass
sun-glassed
sun glasses
sunglasses
sunglint
sunglow
sun god
sungod
sun granny
sungrazer
sungrazing
sungrebe
sunhat
sun hat
sun helmet
sunhood
sun kicks
sun kink
sun-kissed
sunkissed
sun lamp
sunlamp
sunland
sunless
sun letter
sunlight
sunlighting
sun-like
sunlike
Sun-like
sun line
sunlit
sun lounge
sunlounger
sunly
sunnish
sunny
sun oneself
sun orchid
sun outage
sun-parlor
sun parlor
sun parlour
sunperch
sunphotometer
sunphotometric
sunphotometry
sun picture
sun pillar
sun poisoning
sunporch
sunproof
sun protection factor
sunquake
sunquat
sunray
sunrise
sunrising
sunrist
sunroof
sun room
sunroom
sunroot
sunrose
sunscald
sunscreen
sunscreening
sunseed
sunseeker
sunset
sunshade
sunshaft
sunshield
Sunshine
sun-shine
sunshine
sunshot
sun shot
sun-shot
sunshower
sun shower
sunskirter
sun sneezing
sunspace
sun spider
sun-splashed
sun spot
sunspot
sun spurge
sunstar
sun star
sunstead
sun-stead
sunstone
sunstricken
sunstrike
sunstroke
sunstruck
sunsuit
sunswept
sun-synchronous orbit
suntan
sun tea
suntiger
sun-tight
sun trap
suntrap
sun tunnel
sun umbrella
sun-up
sunup
sunview
sun visor
sunward
sunwards
sunwarmed
sunwashed
sunwatcher
sunways
sunwear
sunwing
sunwise
sun-worshiper
sun worshiper
sun-worshipper
sun worshipper
supersun
sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow
sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow morning
sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow
sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning
take the sun
there is nothing new under the sun
the sun is over the yardarm
the sun sets on something
think the sun shines out of someone's arse
think the sun shines out of someone's ass
think the sun shines out of someone's backside
think the sun shines out of someone's butt
time in the sun
too close to the sun
Tuscan sun
under the sun
Venezuelan suntiger
Vergina sun
virgin of the sun
what color is the sun in your world
where the sun doesn't shine
where the sun don't shine
Whitsun
Whitsunday
winter sun
Related terms: south