OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 470

sun

/sʌn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sol
A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
Because Haestrom's sun has overwhelmed the planet's protective magnetosphere, humans foolhardy enough to venture into geth-controlled Haestrom must exercise extreme caution. Minute…
sol
The light and heat which are received from the sun; sunshine or sunlight.
His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, whic…
Lambs that did frisk in the sun.
sol
Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
ocaso • orto • puesta de sol • salida del sol
Sunrise or sunset.
I love these sons of earth every mother's son of them, with their great hearty hearts rushing tumultuously in herds from spectacle to spectacle, as if fearful lest there should not…
You see, the President has five jobs, any one of which would be more than a full-time job for one man; but I have to do all five of them between sun and sun.
📚 verb • entry_id 471

sun

/sʌn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
asolar • asolear • solearse
To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.
Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.
There were lots of zany antics and we tried not to stare too obviously at the beautiful women toplessly sunning themselves...
asolarse • asolearse • solearse
To be exposed to the sun.
Phrases