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sunshine
  1. The direct rays, light or warmth of the sun.
  2. A location on which the sun's rays fall.
  3. Geniality or cheerfulness.
  4. A source of cheerfulness or joy.
  5. The effect which the sun has when it lights and warms some place.
  6. (Britain) Friendly form of address often reserved for juniors.
  7. (Britain) Ironic form of address used to an inferior or troublemaker.
  8. (humorous) Used to address someone who has just woken up and/or is very sleepy.
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  10. Examples:
    1. “During the winter, its southerly location guarantees warm weather and sunshine when our own more northerly climes turn bleak.”
      “Despite this, there are times when rays of golden pop sunshine fall upon the album and make me question how bittersweet the irony is.”
sun
  1. (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
  2. The light and warmth which is received from the sun.
  3. (figuratively) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
  4. (literary) Sunrise or sunset.
  5. (tarot) The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
  6. (cartomancy) The thirty-first Lenormand card.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “And so they headed off to the beach for some sun and fun.”
      “I'll leave with the sun. And now, as it's dark, we should sleep.”
      “Would the writer contend that, if any planet had a sun as ours does, it would teem with life as the Earth does?”
sunbeam
  1. A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight.
  2. (Australia, colloquial, dated) An item of cutlery or crockery laid out on a table, but not used, and which can be returned to the drawer without being washed.
  3. Any butterfly of the genus Curetis.
  4. Any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “It was like someone scooted rain clouds from overhead and a big ole yellow sunbeam came down to warm me!”
      “There was one more chair, set in front of the others in the rectangle of light cast by a sunbeam.”
      “In 1665 he split a sunbeam into a many-hued spectrum by passing it through a prism in a darkened room.”
sunlight
  1. All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, especially that in the visible spectrum that bathes the Earth.
  2. (figuratively) Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Sharp beams of sunlight lanced through the lush foliage, acute needles on her bare shoulders.”
      “You'll be amazed at how much difference sunlight makes to quelling those anxious feelings.”
      “In the distance two shells slid on the thin flame of sunlight like slender water beetles.”
sunlessness
  1. The state or characteristic of being without the sun or sunshine.
  2. (figuratively) Dreariness, joylessness.
  3. Examples:
    1. “All around us things flowered in the misty gray, red, orange, pink and blue, as though shouting against the sunlessness of the day.”
      “The small, isolated community is slowing down in preparation for a month of total sunlessness, an annual occurrence that prompts the temporary departure of many citizens.”
      “The sunlessness of life in West Berlin is an observable thing.”
sunscreen
  1. A cream, to be spread on the skin, containing organic compounds that absorb, and/or titanium dioxide that reflects the sun’s ultraviolet radiation.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Every dermatologist I have spoken to says sunscreen is the most effective anti-ageing weapon.”
      “I put baby oil with iodine on when I was sitting in the sun, which is really stupid, and didn't wear sunscreen properly.”
      “Kaolin today is used in making paper, plastics, rubber, paints, fibreglass, ceramics, some foods, sunscreen lotion, and many other products.”
sun
  1. A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And so they headed off to the beach for some sun and fun.”
      “I'll leave with the sun. And now, as it's dark, we should sleep.”
      “Would the writer contend that, if any planet had a sun as ours does, it would teem with life as the Earth does?”
sunspot
  1. (astronomy) A region on the sun's surface with a lower temperature than its surroundings and intense magnetic activity.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Let's spend our summer vacation at the exquisite sunspot, where white sandy beaches and endless activities await us.”
      “The darkest, central region of a sunspot, called the umbra, features tightly bundled magnetic field lines.”
      “In August it is crammed with holidaymakers, and all the usual paraphernalia of a Mediterranean sunspot.”
sunlights
  1. (colloquial) The lighter coloring of hair in the summertime due to exposure to sunlight.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They did not build ships and beach on alien shores, and carry their flags and standards into new sunlights.”
sunseeker
  1. A person who enjoys exposure to sunlight; an avid sunbather.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As a sunseeker, she spent hours lounging on the beach, basking in the warm rays of the sun.”
      “Beaches strewn with driftwood and the odd sunseeker greet us at the shore.”
      Sunseeker has sold 110 superyachts to people in Hong Kong over the past decade, but there is nowhere left to park them.”
sunshade
  1. Something to keep the sun off, something to create shade from the sun.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In one corner was a giant fennel that reminded one of a lace-dressed lady spreading out a sunshade of sea-green satin.”
      “He is attended by a nude servant who walks behind, holding a sunshade in his left hand and a small staff in his right.”
      “The fly, reinforced with its own pole, forms a nine-square-foot vestibule over one door and a sunshade over the other.”
sunshaft
sunsuit
  1. A costume designed to protect a child from the sun.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Telzey snapped the tiny library shut, fastened it to the belt of her sunsuit and went over to the open window.”
      “The woman wore a bright yellow sunsuit, with blue flowers printed on it.”
      “The Sunsuit is an Ultra Violet protection alternative for children who have sunscreen allergies.”
sunnies
  1. (US, colloquial) plural of sunny (sunfish or sunperch)
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The guy with blonde streaks through black hair and wearing silver sunglasses grinned sheepishly, pushing his sunnies up onto his hair.”
      “I purchased some cheap sunnies and boardies, had a swim in the pool, and chilled in the sauna.”
      “With a mischievous smile on her face, she slipped off her sunnies and rested them on top of her hair.”
sun
  1. Alternative form of sunn (“the plant”)
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And so they headed off to the beach for some sun and fun.”
      “I'll leave with the sun. And now, as it's dark, we should sleep.”
      “Would the writer contend that, if any planet had a sun as ours does, it would teem with life as the Earth does?”
sunniness
  1. The property of being sunny.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The lighting design provided all the warmth and sunniness one would expect from Naples.”
      “He has the raw charisma, false sunniness, and keen edge to convince us of his criminal tendencies.”
      “However, with that sunniness of disposition for which I am renowned, I decided it would probably show up the following day.”
sunlights
sunnies
  1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, informal) Sunglasses.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The guy with blonde streaks through black hair and wearing silver sunglasses grinned sheepishly, pushing his sunnies up onto his hair.”
      “I purchased some cheap sunnies and boardies, had a swim in the pool, and chilled in the sauna.”
      “With a mischievous smile on her face, she slipped off her sunnies and rested them on top of her hair.”
sunne
  1. Obsolete spelling of sun
  2. Examples:
    1. “However it started, it made its way from the Germanic into the Middle English as sunne to become our sun of today.”
      “This led to Edward's later adoption of the sign of the sunne in splendour as his personal device.”
      “For these last 4 dayes the weather hath bene extreame hot and very calme, the Sunne being 5 degrees aboue the horison at midnight.”
sunny
  1. A sunfish.
sunscreens
  1. plural of sunscreen
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Patients should select broad-spectrum sunscreens that contain agents that block UVB and UVA with an SPF of 30 or greater.”
      “A few years ago, most sunscreens contained ingredients known as PABAs, para-aminobenzoic acid and its derivatives.”
      “People who react to standard sunscreens might look for a lotion containing physical blockers like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide.”
sunseekers
  1. plural of sunseeker
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Two groups of sunseekers were forced to wait more than 24 hours for a flight to the Balearic Islands.”
      “Thousands of sunseekers flocked to Britain's south coast on Sunday to enjoy the last remnants of summer.”
      “Pescara is on a strip of white sand, popular with Italian sunseekers, but little known abroad.”
sunninesses
sunshafts
  1. plural of sunshaft
sunshades
  1. plural of sunshade
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  3. Examples:
    1. “For ventilation and flexibility in shading, roof panels and sunshades can be opened and closed electrically.”
      “Many facades are already renovated, the war ruins slowly vanish, sunshades appear in front of cafes and flowery ornaments on the girls' dresses.”
      “Hung uncertainly from the building, the sunshades are precast concrete on the upper level and, on the lower one, black metal.”
sunshines
  1. plural of sunshine
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  3. Examples:
    1. “What was wrong, you wondered, with those nice magnetic charts with stick on clouds and smiley sunshines?”
      “We had been already five weeks in Savagedom, among sands, deserts, and scorching sunshines, and, to say the truth, we had had enough of it.”
sunspots
  1. plural of sunspot
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The topmost paper was a graph measuring gamma ray radiation from sunspots over the past few months.”
      “The Sun spins once on its axis once every 25 days at its equator, carrying sunspots around.”
      “Scientists are still figuring out the role of sunspots in space weather, but they do know that when a flare erupts, sunspots are often nearby.”
sunsuits
  1. plural of sunsuit
sunbeams
  1. plural of sunbeam
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Mam said good luck again as I kissed her goodbye, and outside in the freezy sunbeams it seemed horrible to leave her on her own like that.”
      “The first sunbeams were shining brilliantly, spreading their golden glow over the calm water.”
      “The brilliant emeralds faded to a dull jade, the gold sunbeams shattering, giving way to dreary grey light.”
sunnes
  1. plural of sunne
suns
  1. plural of sun
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  3. Examples:
    1. “All except for 47 Ursae Majoris are gas giants orbiting closer to their suns than Mercury orbits our sun.”
      “It is only when the Sun is on the horizon that we get the mock suns exactly on the 22-degree halo.”
      “The twin suns of Safi and Soka were discernible as bloated yellow-red spheres just over the horizon.”
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