SUN


Meaning of SUN in English

(~s)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

The ~ is the ball of fire in the sky that the Earth goes round, and that gives us heat and light.

The ~ was now high in the southern sky...

The ~ came out, briefly.

...the ~’s rays...

The ~ was shining.

N-SING: usu the N

2.

You refer to the light and heat that reach us from the ~ as the ~.

Dena took them into the courtyard to sit in the ~...

N-UNCOUNT: usu the N

3.

A ~ is any star which has planets going around it.

N-COUNT

4.

Everything under the ~ means a very great number of things. Anything under the ~ means anything at all.

We sat there for hours talking about everything under the ~...

PHRASE: PHR after v

5.

a place in the ~: see place

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