sun

noun

1》 (also Sun) the star round which the earth orbits.

    ↘any similar star, with or without planets.

2》 the light or warmth received from the sun.

3》 literary a day or a year.

verb (suns, sunning, sunned) (sun oneself) sit or lie in the sun.

↘expose to the sun.

Phrases

against the sun Nautical against the direction of the sun's apparent movement (in the northern hemisphere); anticlockwise.

shoot the sun Nautical ascertain the altitude of the sun with a sextant in order to determine one's latitude.

under the sun in existence.

with the sun Nautical in the direction of the sun's apparent movement (in the northern hemisphere); clockwise or from left to right.

Derivatives

sunless adjective

sunlessness noun

sunlike adjective

sunward adjective & adverb

sunwards adverb

Origin

OE sunne, of Gmc origin.