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Word entry · 3 letters

sun

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"Our star"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /sʌn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted nsuStarts with SEnds with N10 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. expose one's body to the sun

Word origin

From Middle English soen, son, sone, sonne, sun, sune, sunna, sunne, sunnæ, synne, zonne, zunne, from Old English sunna, sunne, sunnu (“sun”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ (“sun”), from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen-, oblique of Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).

Used in a sentence

  • “And the cite hath no nede of the ſunne nether of the mone to lyghten hit. For the bꝛynghtnes off God dyd light hitt: and the lambe was the light off hit.”
  • “"I suppose I may have leave to do that!" Yes, she could do that, he said, but there was no road to that place; it lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and she could never find her way there.”
  • “'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.”

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Used as a crossword answer10 curated clues

01“Our star”3 letters
02“Beachgoer's concern”3 letters
03“Bright daytime body”3 letters
04“Daytime star”3 letters
05“Solar light source”3 letters
06“Solar-system center”3 letters
07“Source of daylight”3 letters
08“Star over Earth”3 letters
09“Star seen by day”3 letters
10“Star in our sky”3 letters

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