sun
/sʌn/ noun A1- A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
- The light and heat which are received from the Sun; sunshine or sunlight. · I have been broiling in the sun all morning.
- Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
- Sunrise or sunset.
- A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
- A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
- The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
- The thirty-first Lenormand card.
Plural suns
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“What shall we do now?” asked the Tin Woodman, as the Lion lay down on the grass to let the sun dry him.
When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining through the trees and Toto had long been out chasing birds around him and squirrels.
“She was so old,” explained the Witch of the North, “that she dried up quickly in the sun.
“My body shone so brightly in the sun that I felt very proud of it and it did not matter now if my axe slipped, for it could not cut me.
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