sun
/sʌn/ proper noun, noun, verb
Forms the sun suns sunning sunned Sun.
- proper noun The star that is closest to the Earth.
- noun (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
- noun The light and heat which are received from the Sun; sunshine or sunlight. “I have been broiling in the sun all morning.”
- noun (figurative) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
- noun (uncountable, chiefly literary) Sunrise or sunset.
- noun A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
- noun A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
- noun The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
- noun (cartomancy) The thirty-first Lenormand card.
- verb (transitive) To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun. “Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.”
- verb (transitive) To warm or dry in the sunshine.
- verb (intransitive) To be exposed to the sun.
- verb (intransitive, alternative medicine) To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
- noun A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
- proper noun The star at the center of the Solar System (our solar system), which shines in our sky.
- proper noun The 91st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
- proper noun (newspapers) An English tabloid newspaper.
- proper noun A surname.
- proper noun (rail transport) The station code of Sunny Bay in Hong Kong.
Synonyms
Sol mul:☉ mul:☼ mul:☀ Currant Bun Bath bun apricate sunlight sunshine Sunday Lord's Day Dominicus sunbathe insolate solarize solarise
Etymology
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”).
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 (slắnce, “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.
From Japanese 寸 (sun). Doublet of cun.
From Middle English sunne, from Old English sunna, sunne (“sun; the Sun”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from the heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wén-, oblique form of *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun; the Sun”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon, Old Dutch sunna, German Low German Sünn, Old Saxon sunna, German Sonne, Old High German sunna, Faroese sunna, Icelandic sunna, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 (sunnō). More at sun.
From Mandarin 孫／孙 (Sūn), Wade-Giles romanization: Sun¹.
Webster’s 1913
- noun See Sunn.
- noun The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000.
- noun Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.
- verb To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.
Etymology [OE. sunne, sonne, AS. sunne; akin to OFries. sunne, D. zon, OS. & OHG. sunna, G. sonne, Icel. sunna, Goth. sunna; perh. fr. same root as L. sol. *297. Cf. Solar, South.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “sun”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details