Usually means: Star at center of solar-system.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word sun:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. sun: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Sun, sun: Merriam-Webster
  3. Sun, sun, the sun, the sun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Sun, sun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Sun, sun: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Sun, sun: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sun, Sun, sun: Wordnik
  8. Sun, sun: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sun, sun: Wiktionary
  10. sun: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Sun, sun: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sun: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Sun, sun: Dictionary.com
  14. sun (n.), sun (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sun: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SUN, Sun (Belinda Carlisle song), Sun (Cat Power album), Sun (German band), Sun (R&B band), Sun (Thomas Bergersen album), Sun (Two Door Cinema Club song), Sun (astrology), Sun (automobile), Sun (disambiguation), Sun (film), Sun (heraldry), Sun (hieroglyph), Sun (motorcycle), Sun (newspaper), Sun (supermarket tabloid), Sun (surname), Sun, The SUN (Hong Kong), The Sun (American band), The Sun (Cat Empire album), The Sun (Fridge album), The Sun (Hong Kong), The Sun (Lowell), The Sun (Malaysia), The Sun (New York), The Sun (New York City), The Sun (New Zealand newspaper), The Sun (Nigeria), The Sun (Rangoon), The Sun (Sydney), The Sun (Tarot card), The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sun (band), The Sun (disambiguation), The Sun (film), The Sun (magazine), The Sun (newspaper), The Sun (wordless novel), The Sun, The sun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sun: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sun: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sun: Rhymezone
  20. sun: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sun: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Sun: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. sun: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Sun: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. sun: FreeDictionary.org
  26. sun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. Sun, sun: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. Sun, sun: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  2. Sun: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sun: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. Sun (astronomy), Sun (star), sun: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. sun: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  5. SUN: Acronym Finder
  6. SUN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  7. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  8. sun: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sun: Easton Bible
  2. Sun: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sun: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Sun: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. SUN: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sun: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. s.u.n: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See suning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The star that Earth revolves around, and from which it receives light and heat.
noun:  (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
noun:  The light and heat which are received from the sun; sunshine or sunlight.
noun:  (figurative) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
noun:  (uncountable, chiefly literary) Sunrise or sunset.
noun:  A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
noun:  A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
noun:  The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
noun:  (cartomancy) The thirty-first Lenormand card.
verb:  (transitive) To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.
verb:  (transitive) To warm or dry in the sunshine.
verb:  (intransitive) To be exposed to the sun.
verb:  (intransitive, alternative medicine) To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
noun:  A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
noun:  The star at the center of the Solar System (our solar system), which shines in our sky, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☉.
noun:  The 91st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
noun:  (newspapers) An English tabloid newspaper.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (rail transport) The station code of Sunny Bay in Hong Kong.
noun:  Alternative form of sunn (“the plant”) [An East Indian leguminous plant of species Crotalaria juncea, yielding a fiber.]
noun:  Abbreviation of Sunday. [The first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.]

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