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  • proper noun The star at the center of the Solar System, represented in astronomy and astrology by .
  • proper noun newspapers An English tabloid newspaper.
  • noun Abbreviation of Sunday.

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Examples

  • Believed to originate in Egypt, it represented the balance of the sun at the horizon between the upper and under world (at the Fall Equinox, the Sun rests on the equator and then begins its journey South).

    Aries Full Moon 2009: The Harvest Moon 2009

  • Wikis were born under the Hawaiian sun well, the name was, so perhaps it's appropriate that Sun should have set up its own wikis, in a further sign that Sun gets it, and that wikis are almost mainstream now.

    Archive 2007-08-01 glyn moody 2007

  • Wikis were born under the Hawaiian sun well, the name was, so perhaps it's appropriate that Sun should have set up its own wikis, in a further sign that Sun gets it, and that wikis are almost mainstream now.

    Wiki Wiki Sun glyn moody 2007

  • SUN AND KODAK SETTLE JAVA PATENT DISPUTE: Sun Microsystems will pay Kodak $92 million to settle a patent infringement action in respect of Java, the platform-independent programming language developed by Sun, it was announced yesterday.

    The 271 Patent Blog Peter Zura 2004

  • (Moderated) comp. sources.sun Software for Sun workstations.

    A List of Active Usenet Newsgroups from Gene Spafford 1991

  • (Moderated) comp. sources.sun Software for Sun workstations.

    The Usenet Newsgroups List by Gene Spafford 1991

  • Overhead, a hot tropical sun completed the idyllic picture; it was hard to realize that just beyond these walls the real Sun was shining, now twice as fiercely as on any terrestrial beach.

    2061 Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur C. 1987

  • It was impossible that the _planet_ Mercury could be in the sign Gemini, because his greatest elongation, or apparent distance from the sun, does not exceed 29 degrees; so that the Sun having but just entered Taurus, Mercury could not be in

    Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various

  • Seeing the importance of the sun in their rites, one is inclined to say Sun

    The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Hattie Greene Lockett 1921

  • Before that time, when the sun is low down in the heavens, night has the advantage, and the days are short; afterwards, when the Sun has travelled more to the left, the days triumph over the nights.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

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  • October 28, 2010