Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SUN

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Definitions of SUN

1. A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
2. A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
3. The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
4. A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
5. The 91st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
6. The star at the center of the Solar System (our solar system), which shines in our sky, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☉.
7. Abbreviation of Sunday.
8. (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
9. (figurative) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
10. (uncountable, chiefly, literary) Sunrise or sunset.
11. (cartomancy) The thirty-first Lenormand card.
12. (transitive) To warm or dry in the sunshine.
13. (intransitive) To be exposed to the sun.
14. (intransitive, alternative medicine) To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
15. Alternative form of sunn ("the plant").
16. (newspapers) An English tabloid newspaper.
17. A surname.
18. The star that Earth revolves around, and from which it receives light and heat.
19. The light and heat which are received from the sun; sunshine or sunlight.
20. (transitive) To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.

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Examples of Using SUN in a Sentence

• Periods in a calendar (such as years and months) are usually, though not necessarily, synchronized with the cycle of the sun or the moon.
• In most accounts, Circe is described as the daughter of the sun god Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse.
• It was during this escape that Icarus did not heed his father's warnings and flew too close to the sun; the wax holding his wings together melted and Icarus fell to his death.
• He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the sun to another star by the method of parallax.
• A close relative to the Severan dynasty, he came from a prominent Syrian Arab family in Emesa (Homs), Syria, where he served as the head priest of the sun god Elagabal from a young age.
• The name Kyrgyz, both for the people and the country, means "forty tribes", a reference to the epic hero Manas who unified forty tribes against the Oirats, as symbolized by the 40-ray sun on the flag of Kyrgyzstan.

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