Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The star at the center of our solar system, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☉.
- n. An English tabloid newspaper.
- n. Sun (Chinese surname)
- abbr. Sunday.
- n. The star at the center of our solar system, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☉.
- n. An English tabloid newspaper.
- n. Sun (Chinese surname)
- abbr. Sunday.
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English sunne; see sāwel- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Believed to originate in Egypt, it represented the balance of the sun at the horizon between the upper and under world (at the Fall Equinox, the Sun rests on the equator and then begins its journey South).”
“Wikis were born under the Hawaiian sun well, the name was, so perhaps it's appropriate that Sun should have set up its own wikis, in a further sign that Sun gets it, and that wikis are almost mainstream now.”
“SUN AND KODAK SETTLE JAVA PATENT DISPUTE: Sun Microsystems will pay Kodak $92 million to settle a patent infringement action in respect of Java, the platform-independent programming language developed by Sun, it was announced yesterday.”
“(Moderated) comp. sources.sun Software for Sun workstations.”
“Overhead, a hot tropical sun completed the idyllic picture; it was hard to realize that just beyond these walls the real Sun was shining, now twice as fiercely as on any terrestrial beach.”
2061 Odyssey Three
“It was impossible that the _planet_ Mercury could be in the sign Gemini, because his greatest elongation, or apparent distance from the sun, does not exceed 29 degrees; so that the Sun having but just entered Taurus, Mercury could not be in”
“Seeing the importance of the sun in their rites, one is inclined to say Sun”
“Before that time, when the sun is low down in the heavens, night has the advantage, and the days are short; afterwards, when the Sun has travelled more to the left, the days triumph over the nights.”
“The ancient identification of Phoebus Apollo with the sun and Artemis Hecate with the moon seems to me to withstand all modern criticisms, though of course there are many other elements combined with the Sun and Moon elements.”
“Wake us to wealth, O Dawn; give to us, give to us; wake up, lest the sun burn thee with his light' -- a passage (V. 79) which has caused much learned nonsense to be written on the inimical relations of Sun and”
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
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gods (1 syllable)
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