(~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