sun

CEFRA1

/sʌn/

noun · name

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The star that gives Earth light and heat.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.

Examples

  • By the time you got there, the sun had set.

  • The sky was fiery with the setting sun.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The light and heat which are received from the Sun; sunshine or sunlight.

  2. Sunrise or sunset.

name

Extra meaning

  1. The star that is closest to the Earth.

More examples

In context

  • The sun was shining and birds were singing.

  • Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.

  • And the cite hath no nede of the ſunne nether of the mone to lyghten hit. For the bꝛynghtnes off God dyd light hitt: and the lambe was the light off hit.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English soen, son, sone, sonne, sun, sune, sunna, sunne, sunnæ, synne, zonne, zunne, from Old English sunna, sunne, sunnu (“sun”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ (“sun”), from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen-, oblique of Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Cognates 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...