sun

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. daystar, Sol; sunshine, sunlight; prosperity, happiness; star. See universe.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. star, day-star, solar disk, solar orb, eye of heaven, Great luminary, light of the day, lamp of the day, source of light, giver of light, Sol, Apollo; see also star 1 .

• a place in the sun,

Syn. favorable position, favorable situation, reward, prominence; see advantage 1 , 2 , prize .

• under the sun,

Syn. on earth, terrestrial, mundane; see earthly 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

*flaming gasball, star, fireball, flaming orb, sphere, luminary, heavenly body, Sol, Helios, Hyperion, Horus, Ra. ''The fire that severs day from night. —Shakespeare. ''The glorious lamp of heaven. —Dryden.

WORD FIND

• dark spots: sunspots

• gas: hydrogen, helium

• massless particles produced by: neutrinos

• mock optical illusion: parhelion, sundog, mock sun

• obscuring of by moon: solar eclipse

• orbit: ecliptic

• outer atmosphere of: chromosphere, corona

• plant’s movement following: heliotaxis

• plant that bends to follow sun: heliotrope

• referring to: helio, solar

• sunlight therapy: heliotherapy

• sunspot cycle of eleven years: solar cycle

• sunspot’s dark, inner region: umbra

• surface: photosphere

• tongue of flame and gas, huge: solar flare, solar prominence

• variable intensity, sun with: variable star

• worship: heliolatry

see star