sun
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Is sun a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.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."countableuncountable
2. (figurative) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.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, […]"countablefigurativelyuncountable
3. (uncountable, chiefly literary) Sunrise or sunset.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."literaryuncountable
4. (cartomancy) The thirty-first Lenormand card.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.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."Synonyms: apricatetransitive
2. (transitive) To warm or dry in the sunshine.transitive
3. (intransitive) To be exposed to the sun.intransitive
4. (intransitive, alternative medicine) To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.intransitive
name (English)
1. (newspapers) An English tabloid newspaper.
name (English)
1. (rail transport) The station code of Sunny Bay in Hong Kong.
Definition source: Wiktionary