sun
sun is a 3-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Sunn. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. See Sunn.
- noun. The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000.
- noun. Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.
- noun. The direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine.
- noun. That which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation.
- transitive verb. To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.
- noun. the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
"the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system"
"the Earth revolves around the Sun"
- noun. any star around which a planetary system revolves
- noun. a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc
- noun. the rays of the sun
"the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind"
- noun. first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians
- verb. expose one's body to the sun
- verb. 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"
Synonyms
sunlight, sunshine, dominicus, sunday, sunbathe, insolate, solarise, solarize
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sun:
Common word forms
suns, sunned, sunless, sunning
Words from these letters
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