sun
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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, Sünne (“sun”), Luxembourgish Sonn (“sun”), Mòcheno sunn (“sun”), Vilamovian zun, zunn (“sun”), West Flemish zunne (“sun”), Yiddish זון (zun, “sun”), Icelandic sunna (“sun”), Crimean Gothic sune (“sun”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 (sunnō, “the Sun”); outside of Germanic, Cornish howl (“sun”), Irish súil (“eye; expectation, hope”), Manx sooill (“eye”), Scottish Gaelic sùil (“eye; vision; glance, look; expectation, hope”), Welsh haul, huan (“sun”), Latin sōl (“sun”), Greek ήλιος (ílios, “sun”), Albanian diell (“sun”), Latgalian and Latvian saule (“sun”), Lithuanian saulė (“sun”), Belarusian со́нца (sónca, “sun”), Bulgarian слъ́нце (slǎ́nce, “sun”), Czech slunce (“sun”), Macedonian солнце (solnce), сонце (sonce, “sun”), Polish słońce (“sun”), Russian со́лнце (sólnce, “sun”), Serbo-Croatian су̑нце, sȗnce (“sun”), Slovak slnce (“sun”), Slovene sonce (“sun”), Ukrainian со́нце (sónce, “sun”), Avestan 𐬵𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (huuar^ə, “sun”), Central Kurdish خۆر (xor, “sun”), Gurani وەر (wer, “sun; front”), Ossetian хор (xor), хур (xur, “sun”), Persian هور (hur), خور (xor / xwar, “sun”), Shughni хӣр (xīr, “sun”), Yaghnobi хур (xur, “sun”), Tocharian B swāñco (“beam, ray, sunbeam”), Hindi सूर्य (sūrya), Sanskrit स्वर् (svar, “sun”). Related to sol, Sol, Surya, and Helios. More at solar.
Inflected forms:
form: suns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
capitalized
form: sonne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sunne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ☉
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: suns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sunning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sunned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sunned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Sun
pos: verb
tags: alternative
capitalized
form: sonne
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: sunne
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ☉
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The light and heat which are received from the Sun; sunshine or sunlight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Lambs that did frisk in the sun.
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.
gloss: Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: For the Lord God is the ſunne & ſhield vnto vs: […]
[…] I will never conſent to put out the Sun of Sovereigntie to all Poſterity, […]
gloss: Sunrise or sunset.
pos: noun
tags: literary
uncountable
examples: 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: […]
[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.
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.
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.
“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.”
gloss: A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.’
gloss: The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The thirty-first Lenormand card.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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...
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 the Philistines. A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
gloss: To warm or dry in the sunshine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be exposed to the sun.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: south
aphelion
helio-
parhelion
perihelion
solar
sunn
Derived words: 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
sun animalcule
sunback
sunbake
sun ball
sun barge
sun bath
sunbath
sun-bath
sunbathe
sunbeam
sun bear
sunbeat
sunbeaten
sunbed
sun beetle
sunbelt
sunberry
sunbird
sunbittern
sun-bittern
sun bittern
sunbleached
sunbleak
sunblind
sun blind
sun-blind
sun block
sunblock
sunblocker
sunblocking
sunbloom
sunblotch
sunblush
sun bonnet
sunbonnet
sun-bonneted
sunbonneted
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
sun cream
suncream
sun cross
suncup
sun cure
sundae
sundance
Sundance
sun dance
sun-darts
sundawn
Sunday
Sundayfied
sundeck
sun deck
sun deity
sundew
sundial
sun disc
sundisk
sundog
sun dog
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
sungod
sun god
sun goddess
sun granny
sungrazer
sungrazing
sungrebe
sun hat
sunhat
sun helmet
sunhood
sun kicks
sun kink
sun-kissed
sunkissed
sun lamp
sunlamp
sunland
sunless
sunlet
sun letter
sunlight
sunlighted
sunlighting
sunlike
sun-like
Sun-like
sun line
sunlit
sun lounge
sunlounger
sunly
sunner
sunnish
sunny
sun oil
sun oneself
sun opal
sun orchid
sun outage
sun painting
sun pan
sun-parlor
sun parlor
sun parlour
sunperch
sunphotometer
sunphotometric
sunphotometry
sun picture
sun pillar
sun pipe
sun poisoning
sunporch
sunproof
sun protection factor
sunquake
sunquat
sunray
sunrise
sunrising
sunrist
sunroof
sunroom
sun room
sunroot
sunrose
sunscald
sunscreen
sunscreening
sunseed
sunseeker
sunset
sunshade
sunshaft
sunshield
sun-shine
sunshine
Sunshine
sunshot
sun shot
sun-shot
sun shower
sunshower
sun sign
sunskirter
sun sneezing
sunspace
sunspecs
sun spider
sun-splashed
sunspot
sun spot
sun spurge
sunstar
sun star
sun-stead
sunstead
sunstone
sunstricken
sunstrike
sunstroke
sunstruck
sunsuit
sunswept
Sun-synchronous orbit
sun-synchronous orbit
suntan
sun tea
suntiger
sun-tight
sun trap
suntrap
sun tunnel
sun umbrella
sunup
sun-up
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
sun up
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