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   Sun

   /sən/

   

   noun

   • 1. the star around which the earth orbits: "the sun shone from a cloudless sky"
   • ▪ any star in the universe that is similar to the sun, with or without planets. Similar starSolHeliosPhoebusApolloRa
   • 2. the light or warmth received from the earth's sun: "we sat outside in the sun" Similar sunshinesunlightdaylightlightwarmthbeamsrays
   • ▪ a person or thing regarded as a source of glory, inspiration, or understanding: literary "the rhetoric faded before the sun of reality"
   • ▪ used with reference to someone's success or prosperity: literary "the sun of the Plantagenets went down in clouds"
   • 3. a day or a year: literary "after going so many suns without food, I was sleeping"

   verb

   • 1. sit or lie in the sun: "Buzz could see Clare sunning herself on the terrace below"
   • ▪ expose (something) to the sun, especially to warm or dry it: "the birds are sunning their wings"

   Word Origin Old Englishsunne, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zon and German Sonne, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek hēlios and Latin sol.

   Derivatives

   • 1. sunlike adjective

   Scrabble Points: 3

   • S

     1

   • U

     1

   • N

     1

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