Definitions

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  • noun A person who basks in the sun to get a tan.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan

Etymologies

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sunbathe +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Michael was stretched out like a sunbather on a Caribbean beach.

    Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011

  • Michael was stretched out like a sunbather on a Caribbean beach.

    Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011

  • Zooming in on a sunbather in a bikini as a demonstration is not likely to allay fears about how intrusive this technology might be.

    What's the buzz? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Michael was stretched out like a sunbather on a Caribbean beach.

    Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011

  • This season, while patrolling Venice Beach, they ticket a nude sunbather.

    TV on DVD 2012

  • (Soundbite of laughter) GROSZ: The woman told police that the sunbather had been applying sunscreen to her chest, and her sons, aged 12 and 14, quote, "had been troubled by what she was doing."

    Lightning Fill In The Blank 2010

  • The half-dozen Mueck sculptures, from the tiny sunbather perilously adrift on his lilo to the immense dead bird – devastating memento mori – are brilliantly proportioned so that inner emotion is dramatised in outer scale.

    Extraordinary Measures 2010

  • With that, he started for the boat, and she followed him, carrying the large pile of unfolded blankets in both arms, like a sunbather who had been surprised by rain.

    THE MOONLIT EARTH CHRISTOPHER RICE 2010

  • You'll see the occasional sunbather amid the landscape of salvage yards, parking lots and fuel tanks.

    Jesse Larner: Sxip Shirey and Sonic New York 2010

  • You'll see the occasional sunbather amid the landscape of salvage yards, parking lots and fuel tanks.

    Jesse Larner: Sxip Shirey and Sonic New York 2010

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