Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like the sun; resembling the sun in brilliancy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like or resembling the sun.
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- adjective Like a
sun . - adjective astronomy Resembling the
Sun .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But little more than a decade later, we know that the gas methane exists on a giant planet orbiting a star 63 light-years away, that sodium exists on a planet orbiting a sunlike star 150 light-years away, and that evidence of both oxygen and carbon has been detected enveloping another planet in that solar system.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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The research was published in 2009 and represents the teasing out of one of the first three-planet solar systems orbiting a sunlike star.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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The gravitational interactions among the five planets circling closest to the sunlike star reveal they take 10, 13, 23, 32 and 47 days, respectively, to complete a "year."
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The research was published in 2009 and represents the teasing out of one of the first three-planet solar systems orbiting a sunlike star.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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But little more than a decade later, we know that the gas methane exists on a giant planet orbiting a star 63 light-years away, that sodium exists on a planet orbiting a sunlike star 150 light-years away, and that evidence of both oxygen and carbon has been detected enveloping another planet in that solar system.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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There were two prep rooms: In the first, just beyond the retail area, there was an enormous oven that radiated sunlike heat, and a wooden bench at the end of which there was always a case of eggs.
Cake Boss Buddy Valastro 2010
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I giggle with delight, watching him chew openmouthed, only dragging myself away from his sunlike presence to look over at the speech therapist to make sure she shares in the wonder of this feat.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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Mars, a world where Martians pay homage to a sunlike globe -- floating high above their cities of the interior.
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I giggle with delight, watching him chew openmouthed, only dragging myself away from his sunlike presence to look over at the speech therapist to make sure she shares in the wonder of this feat.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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