sun

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sun/sʌn/

▶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.

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Sun.

▶abbreviation Sunday.