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Sun

noun

The star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system. "The Earth revolves around the Sun"

The rays of the sun. Synonyms: sunlight, sunshine.

A person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc.

Any star around which a planetary system revolves.

First day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians. Synonyms: Dominicus, Lord's Day, Sunday.

verb

(past & past part. sunned; pres. part. sunning)

Expose one's body to the sun. Synonym: sunbathe.

Expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun. Synonyms: insolate, solarise, solarize. "These herbs suffer when sunned"

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"Sun" Quotes from Famous Books

... affecting this great object ought to be a great abuse. 3d, It ought to be habitual, and not accidental. 4th, It ought to be utterly incurable in the body as it now stands constituted. All this ought to be made as visible to me as the light of the sun, before I should strike off an atom of their charter. A right honorable gentleman[54] has said, and said, I think, but once, and that very slightly, (whatever his original demand for a plan might seem to require,) that "there are abuses in the ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... cons the engraven record like a second horn-book;—the child is proud that he can read it;—and the stranger is introduced through its mediation to the company of a friend: it is concerning all, and for all:—in the church-yard it is open to the day; the sun looks down upon the stone, and the rains ...

— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

... rectitude and unselfishness kept up my faith in woman, and saved me from souring and hardening. On the other hand, her firmness won Theodora's respect, her softness, her affection. She led where I drove, acted the sun where I acted Boreas; and it is she who has restored us to ...

— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge

... endeavouring to be polite. She sat upon a many-hued divan, and glanced from the blue-and-yellow wall-paper to the green velvet chairs, the dull-red carpet and the stiff "lace" curtains. "You get the afternoon sun, and the view opposite isn't bad. The vestibule seemed to be well kept, and I rang only three times before I ...

— The Indifference of Juliet • Grace S. Richmond

... seeds, and people still line their paths with cockle shells, and sunflowers are still called "fair maids" in the country. As for the Princess Mary Radiant—why, it's only in the sunshine that the bells look like silver, and the cockle-shells like mother-o'-pearl, and it's only to the sun that the sunflowers turn their heads every day . . . and we all know the sun can ...

— More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme • Ada M. Marzials

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