What does sun mean?
Definitions for sun
sʌnsun
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word sun.
Princeton's WordNet
sun, Sunnoun
the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
"the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system"; "the Earth revolves around the Sun"
sunlight, sunshine, sunnoun
the rays of the sun
"the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind"
sunnoun
a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc
sunnoun
any star around which a planetary system revolves
Sunday, Lord's Day, Dominicus, Sunverb
first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians
sun, sunbatheverb
expose one's body to the sun
sun, insolate, solarize, solariseverb
expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun
"insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble"; "These herbs suffer when sunned"
Wiktionary
sunnoun
A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
sunnoun
The light and warmth which is received from the sun.
sunnoun
Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
sunnoun
Sunrise or sunset.
sunverb
To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.
sunverb
To warm or dry in the sunshine.
sunverb
To be exposed to the sun.
sunnoun
The star which the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.
Sunnoun
Sunday
Sunnoun
The star at the center of the Solar System, represented in astronomy and astrology by .
Sunnoun
An English tabloid newspaper.
Etymology: From sunne, from sunnōn, from heteroclitic inanimate sh̥₂uén 'sun' (compare Welsh huan, Avestan gen.), oblique of. More at solar.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
SUNnoun
Etymology: sunno, Gothick; sunna, sunne , Saxon; son, Dut.
Doth beauty keep which never sun can burn,
Nor storms do turn? Philip Sidney.Bid her steal into the pleached bow’r,
Where honeysuckles, ripen’d by the sun,
Forbid the sun to enter. William Shakespeare.Though there be but one sun existing in the world, yet the idea of it being abstracted, so that more substances might each agree in it, it is as much a sort as if there were as many suns as there are stars. John Locke.
This place has choice of sun and shade. John Milton.
I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignty to posterity, and all succeeding kings. Charles I .
There is no new thing under the sun. Eccl. i. 9.
To Sunverb
To insolate; to expose to the sun; to warm in the sun.
Etymology: from the noun.
The cry to shady delve him brought at last,
Where Mammon earst did sun his treasury. Fairy Queen.What aim’st thou at? delicious fare;
And then to sun thyself in open air. John Dryden, Pers.
Wikipedia
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth. Its diameter is about 1.39 million kilometers (864,000 miles), or 109 times that of Earth, and its mass is about 330,000 times that of Earth. It accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. Roughly three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen (~73%); the rest is mostly helium (~25%), with much smaller quantities of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon, and iron.The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star (G2V) based on its spectral class. As such, it is informally and not completely accurately referred to as a yellow dwarf (its light is closer to white than yellow). It formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of matter within a region of a large molecular cloud. Most of this matter gathered in the center, whereas the rest flattened into an orbiting disk that became the Solar System. The central mass became so hot and dense that it eventually initiated nuclear fusion in its core. It is thought that almost all stars form by this process. The Sun currently fuses about 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second, converting 4 million tons of matter into energy every second as a result. This energy, which can take between 10,000 and 170,000 years to escape from its core, is the source of the Sun's light and heat. When hydrogen fusion in its core has diminished to the point at which the Sun is no longer in hydrostatic equilibrium, its core will undergo a marked increase in density and temperature while its outer layers expand, eventually transforming the Sun into a red giant. It is calculated that the Sun will become sufficiently large to engulf the current orbits of Mercury and Venus, and render Earth uninhabitable – but not for about five billion years. After this, it will shed its outer layers and become a dense type of cooling star known as a white dwarf, and no longer produce energy by fusion, but still glow and give off heat from its previous fusion. The enormous effect of the Sun on Earth has been recognized since prehistoric times, and the Sun has been regarded by some cultures as a deity. The synodic rotation of Earth and its orbit around the Sun are the basis of solar calendars, one of which is the predominant calendar in use today.
ChatGPT
sun
The sun is a star at the center of the solar system and is primarily composed of hydrogen and helium. It is estimated to be about 4.6 billion years old and is responsible for providing heat, light, and energy to Earth.
Webster Dictionary
Sunnoun
see Sunn
Sunnoun
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
Sunnoun
any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs
Sunnoun
the direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine
Sunnoun
that which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation
Sunverb
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.]
Wikidata
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields. It has a diameter of about 1,392,684 km, about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. Chemically, about three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is mostly helium. The remainder consists of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon and iron, among others. The Sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a region within a large molecular cloud. Most of the matter gathered in the center, while the rest flattened into an orbiting disk that would become the Solar System. The central mass became increasingly hot and dense, eventually initiating thermonuclear fusion in its core. It is thought that almost all other stars form by this process. The Sun's stellar classification, based on spectral class, is a G-type main-sequence star and is informally designated as a yellow dwarf because its visible radiation is most intense in the yellow-green portion of the spectrum, and although its color is white, from the surface of the Earth it may appear yellow because of atmospheric scattering of blue light. In the spectral class label, G2 indicates its surface temperature of approximately 5778 K, and V indicates that the Sun, like most stars, is a main-sequence star, and thus generates its energy by nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium. In its core, the Sun fuses 620 million metric tons of hydrogen each second.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sun
sun, n. the body which is the source of light and heat to our planetary system: a body which forms the centre of a system of orbs: that which resembles the sun in brightness or value: the sunshine: a revolution of the earth round the sun, a year: sunrise, day: (her.) a bearing representing the sun.—v.t. to expose to the sun's rays.—v.i. to become warm in the sunshine:—pr.p. sun′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. sunned.—n. Sun′beam, a beam or ray of the sun.—adjs. Sun′-beat, -en, smitten by the rays of the sun.—ns. Sun′-bird, a family of small tropical birds, the male with resplendent metallic plumage; Sun′-bitt′ern, a South American bird about the size of a small curlew, long-legged and long-necked, with brilliant many-coloured markings; Sun′-bonn′et, a light bonnet projecting beyond the face to protect from the sun; Sun′bow, an iris formed by the sun, esp. in the spray of a cataract; Sun′burn, a burning or scorching by the sun, esp. the browning of the skin of the face, hands, &c. exposed to the sun.—adjs. Sun′burned, Sun′burnt, burned or discoloured by the sun.—n. Sun′burst, a strong outburst of sunlight.—adj. Sun′-clad, clothed in radiant light.—ns. Sun′-crack, one of the superficial markings frequently seen on the surfaces of thin-bedded flagstones and argillaceous sandstones; Sun′dawn, the light of the dawning sun; Sun′dew, a plant of the genus Drosera, found in bogs and moist heathy ground; Sun′-dī′al, an instrument for measuring time by means of the motion of the sun's shadow cast by a style erected on its surface; Sun′-dog, a mock sun or parhelion; Sun′down, sunset: a hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes; Sun′downer, in Australia, a loafer who saunters from station to station in the interior, arriving about sundown in the hope of getting free rations and lodging for the night: a physician in government employment who practises for private fees after his official hours.—adj. Sun′-dried, dried by exposure to the sun.—ns. Sun′-fish, a fish whose body resembles the forepart of a larger fish cut short off, supposed to be so called from its nearly circular form; Sun′flower, a plant so called from its flower, which is a large disc with yellow rays; Sun′god, the sun considered as a deity; Sun′hat, a light hat with wide brim to shade the face from the sun.—adj. Sun′less, without the sun: deprived of the sun or its rays: shaded: dark.—ns. Sun′lessness; Sun′light, the light of the sun.—adjs. Sun′like, like the sun; Sun′lit, lighted up by the sun.—n. Sun′-myth, a solar myth (see Solar).—p.adj. Sunned, exposed to the sun.—n. Sun′niness.—adj. Sun′ny, pertaining to, coming from, or like the sun: exposed to, warmed, or coloured by the sun's rays.—ns. Sun′-pict′ure, -print, a photograph; Sun′rise, Sun′rising, the rising or first appearance of the sun above the horizon: the time of this rising: the east; Sun′set, Sun′setting, the setting or going down of the sun: the west; Sun′shade, a ladies' parasol: an awning; Sun′shine, the shining light of the sun: the place on which it shines: warmth.—adjs. Sun′shine, Sun′shiny, bright with sunshine: pleasant: bright like the sun; Sun′-smitt′en, smitten by the rays of the sun.—ns. Sun′spot, one of the dark irregular spots appearing on the surface of the sun; Sun′stone, aventurine feldspar.—adj. Sun′-strick′en.—n. Sun′stroke, a nervous disease, from exposure to the sun.—adv. Sun′ward, toward the sun.—ns. Sun′-wor′ship, adoration of the sun; Sun′-wor′shipper.—Be in the sunshine, Have the sun in one's eyes, to be in liquor, to be drunk; Take the sun, to ascertain the latitude from the sun; Under the sun, in the world, on earth. [A.S. sunne; Ice. sunna, Ger. sunne.]
The Roycroft Dictionary
sun
1. A giant spot-light, which from the wings of space plays intermittently upon a meaningless ten-twenty-thirty vaudeville show. 2. The root of all evil, the mother of all beauty, and the final tomb of all that is good, bad or indifferent. 3. A dyehouse, probably the first. (The sun was once worshiped as a divinity, but later the competition between gods and divinities became so strenuous that the sun was forgotten, hence his casual earthquakes, floods and other little reminders that we and our gods are only his gimcracks.)
The New Hacker's Dictionary
Sun
Sun Microsystems. Hackers remember that the name was originally an acronym, Stanford University Network. Sun started out around 1980 with some hardware hackers (mainly) from Stanford talking to some software hackers (mainly) from UC Berkeley; Sun's original technology concept married a clever board design based on the Motorola 68000 to BSD Unix. Sun went on to lead the workstation industry through the 1980s, and for years afterwards remained an engineering-driven company and a good place for hackers to work. Though Sun drifted away from its techie origins after 1990 and has since made some strategic moves that disappointed and annoyed many hackers (especially by maintaining proprietary control of Java and rejecting Linux), it's still considered within the family in much the same way DEC was in the 1970s and early 1980s.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
SUN
A yellow arrival from Way Down East, who goes west daily, operates a heating and lighting trust, draws water, prints pictures, develops crops, liquidates the ice business and tans skins on the side. Profits by his daily rays and always has a shine.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
sun
The central body of our planetary system, and the source of light and heat; it is 850,000 miles in diameter.--With the sun, i.e. from left to right.--Against the sun, from right to left.
Editors Contribution
sun
A type of star.
The sun is a star with a specific type of energy and radiation.
Submitted by MaryC on December 31, 2019
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Etymology and Origins
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An inn sign after the heraldic device of Richard II.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
SUN
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sun is ranked #1484 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Sun surname appeared 24,058 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 8 would have the surname Sun.
94.4% or 22,725 total occurrences were Asian.
2.5% or 623 total occurrences were White.
1.6% or 402 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.7% or 183 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.2% or 63 total occurrences were Black.
0.2% or 63 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sun' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #858
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sun' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1296
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sun' in Nouns Frequency: #383
Anagrams for sun »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sun in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sun in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of sun in a Sentence
There’s been an increase of melanoma that’s showing up in non-sun-exposed areas such as the underarm, the genital area and between the toes, so it’s important to check — or have a partner or dermatologist check — your entire body once a year.
I caught the sun today and I didn't even burn his fingers.
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.
Instead of being able to collect data from one spot or for just a few minutes, this eclipse is providing that window of opportunity to observe the corona over a long period of time, this is also an opportunity to test out novel instruments and our models also to see how well are they working. And it's scientifically important because of this sun, moon and Earth connection.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be. . .and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things.
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- شمسArabic
- slunceCzech
- solDanish
- SonneGerman
- ήλιοςGreek
- sunonEsperanto
- solSpanish
- آفتابPersian
- aurinkoFinnish
- soleilFrench
- ghrianIrish
- सूरजHindi
- napHungarian
- արեւըArmenian
- matahariIndonesian
- SoleItalian
- שמשHebrew
- 太陽Japanese
- ಸೂರ್ಯKannada
- 태양Korean
- solLatin
- zonDutch
- solNorwegian
- słońcePolish
- solPortuguese
- soareRomanian
- солнцеRussian
- SolSwedish
- சூரியன்Tamil
- సూర్యుడుTelugu
- ดวงอาทิตย์Thai
- güneşTurkish
- сонцеUkrainian
- سورجUrdu
- mặt trờiVietnamese
- זוןYiddish
- 太陽Chinese
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