the star at the centre of our solar system. It is a gaseous body having a highly compressed core, in which energy is generated by thermonuclear reactions (at about 15 million kelvins), surrounded by less dense radiative and convective zones serving to transport the energy to the surface (the photosphere). The atmospheric layers (the chromosphere and corona) are normally invisible except during a total eclipse. Mass and diameter: 333 000 and 109 times that of earth respectively; mean distance from earth: 149.6 million km (1 astronomical unit)
▶ Related adjective: solar
2.
any star around which a planetary system revolves
3.
the sun as it appears at a particular time or place
the winter sun
4.
the radiant energy, esp heat and light, received from the sun; sunshine
5.
a person or thing considered as a source of radiant warmth, glory, etc
6.
a pictorial representation of the sun, often depicted with a human face
7. poetic
a year or a day
8. poetic
a climate
9. archaic
sunrise or sunset (esp in the phrase from sun to sun)
10. catch the sun
11. place in the sun
12. shoot the sun
13. touch of the sun
14. under the sun
verbWord forms: suns, sunning or sunned
15.
to expose (oneself) to the sunshine
16. (transitive)
to expose to the sunshine in order to warm, tan, etc
Derived forms
sunlike (ˈsunˌlike)
adjective
Word origin
Old English sunne; related to Old High German sunna, Old Frisian senne, Gothic sunno
Examples of 'sunned' in a sentence
sunned
Charlie navigated and E. J. and I trolled for bluefish while Jan stripped to her bikini and sunned herself on the forward bulkhead.
Tapply, William G FOLLOW THE SHARKS
He has the same combination of silver hair and sunned skin.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
I've sunned myself on a warm beach and cycled beside the ocean.