sun

1. 1.

   expose one's body to the sun

   Synonymssunbathe

   Broaderlie
2. 2.

   expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun

   “insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble”

   “These herbs suffer when sunned”

   Synonymsinsolatesolarizesolarise

   Broaderexpose

Other forms of sun

plural

suns·

past tense or participle

sunned

present participle

sunning

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sun

What does sun mean?

sun means "the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sun?

sun has 1 syllable: sun. In IPA it is /ˈsʌn/.

What is another word for sun?

Close synonyms include sunlight, sunshine, Sunday, Lord's Day, Dominicus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sun a common word?

sun is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sun?

3 words rhyme with sun. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.