English Explanatory Dictionary

sun

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The star that is closest to the Earth.
noun
  1. A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
  2. The light and heat which are received from the Sun; sunshine or sunlight.
  3. Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
  4. Sunrise or sunset.
  5. A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
  6. A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
  7. The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
  8. The thirty-first Lenormand card.
verb
  1. To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.
  2. To warm or dry in the sunshine.
  3. To be exposed to the sun.
  4. To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
noun
  1. A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
noun
  1. Alternative form of sunn (“the plant”).
name
  1. The star at the center of the Solar System (our solar system), which shines in our sky, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☉.
  2. The 91st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
  3. An English tabloid newspaper.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of Sunday.
name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. The station code of Sunny Bay in Hong Kong.

Pronunciation

sŭn /sʌn/ En-uk-sun.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-sun.wav /sʊn/ en-us-Sun.ogg

Word forms

sun the sun sonne sunne ☉ suns sunning sunned Sun.

Etymology

Etymology tree 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.

Synonyms

apricate Sol ☉ ☼

Related words

south aphelion helio- parhelion perihelion solar sunn sun currant bun

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 sun-angel sunangel sunback sunbake sun ball sun barge sunbath sun bath sun-bath sunbathe sunbeam sun bear sunbeat sunbeaten sunbed sun beetle sunbelt sunberry sunbird sun bittern sun-bittern sunbittern sunbleached sunbleak sun blind sunblind sun-blind sun block sunblock
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