SUNS Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

suns

noun

plural of sun

as in galaxies

a ball-shaped gaseous celestial body that shines by its own light the incomprehensible vastness of a universe filled with billions of suns

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as in sunrises

the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance I'm afraid that for this long trip we shall have to leave with the sun

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as in glories

public acknowledgment or admiration for an achievement Olympians basking in the sun of athletic achievement while the public still remembers them

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Recent Examples of suns The results reveal jets carrying energy equal to around 10,000 suns while moving at nearly half the speed of light, offering one of the clearest views yet of how black holes pump energy back into the universe. —

Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026 Along my walkway and all over my neighborhood, nasturtium flowers are opening like bright orange suns, fragrant lavender is attracting buzzing bees, and rosemary bushes are beginning to brighten with baby blue flowers. —

Senior Food Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026 Its star-making factories, once churning out millions of suns, grind to a halt. —

Paul Sutter, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2026 Their results, published today in Nature Astronomy, show that the black hole’s jets move at about half the speed of light and carry about 10 percent of the total energy released by infalling matter—equivalent to the power output of 10,000 suns. —

Lee Billings, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026 On the walls, some embossed with seashells, are moon carvings and brass suns, glossy lacquer minibars in baby blues and oxblood reds, and wonky puzzle piece doorknobs. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2026 Astronomers have observed suns forming within the shells of Wolf-Rayet stars, Dwarkadas said. —

James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2026 The bright star is so large that more than 400 million suns could fit inside of it. —

Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026 The exhibit combines ultra-high-definition images taken by the James Webb Telescope with giant models of the planets and suns. —

Heather McRea, Oc Register, 18 Jan. 2026

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In Rubin’s first year alone, scientists expect the observatory to find 1 million undiscovered asteroids — as many as have been documented in the previous 200 years of human history — as well as thousands of comets and billions of stars and galaxies.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2026
And Rubin will discover much more than TNOs, too, by virtue of its emphasis on time-domain astronomy—the study of objects such as asteroids, novae, supernovae and active galaxies that move and vary in brightness.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2026