sun | Lernwerd

Forms

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural: suns

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1): sun
past (v2): sunned
past participle (v3): sunned
present participle: sunning
3rd person singular: suns

Definitions

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1.A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
- If you spend too much time in the sun without putting on sunscreen, you are likely to get a sunburn.
2.Sunrise or sunset.
- You see, the President has five jobs, any one of which would be more than a full-time job for one man; but I have to do all five of them between sun and sun.
- “Tomorrow at first sun.” Not being much of a morning person, she winced internally. “First sun?” “It is the proper time, when the flowers of the pohoroh first open to the light.”
3.The light and heat which are received from the Sun; sunshine or sunlight.
- Lambs that did frisk in the sun.
- His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth.
4.Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
- If you spend too much time in the sun without putting on sunscreen, you are likely to get a sunburn.

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1.To warm or dry in the sunshine.
2.To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.
- Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.
- There were lots of zany antics and we tried not to stare too obviously at the beautiful women toplessly sunning themselves...
3.To be exposed to the sun.
4.To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.

Frequency

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Common· #942

By learning goal

Everyday conversation: Rare
General reading & writing: Common
Academic: Rare
Literature: Uncommon

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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

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.

NounNoun×A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

VerbVerb×A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

NounNoun×A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

VerbVerb×A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

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Word family

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.