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a touch of the sun Definition


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sun
noun
    1. The star that the planets revolve around and which gives out the heat and light energy necessary to enable living organisms to survive on Earth.
      Form: the sun
    2. The heat and light of this star.
    3. Any star with a system of planets revolving around it.
    4. Someone or something that is regarded as a source of radiance, warmth, glory, etc.
    5. poetic
      A day or a year.
verb
    sunned, sunning
    1. To expose (something or oneself) to the sun's rays.
Derivative: sunless
adj
    Without the sun; dark from lack of sunlight
      Thesaurus: dark, overcast, cloudy, gray, hazy, bleak, dismal, cheerless, dreary, gloomy, sombre, depressing; Antonym: sunny.
Derivative: sunlessness
noun
    Derivative: sunlike
    adj
      Derivative: sunward
      adverb
        Towards or in the direction of the sun.
      Idiom: a touch of the sun
        Slight sunburn.
      Idiom: catch the sun
        To sunburn or tan in the sun.
          Example: You're all red ― you've really caught the sun
      Idiom: think the sun shines out of someone's eyes (think the sun shines out of someone's arse etc)
        To consider them to be wonderful, infallible, etc.
      Idiom: under the sun
        Anywhere on Earth.
      Etymology: Anglo-Saxon sunne.



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