sunburst

[ suhn-burst ]

noun
  1. a burst of sunlight; a sudden shining of the sun through rifted clouds.

  2. a firework, piece of jewelry, ornament, or the like, resembling the sun with rays issuing in all directions.

adjective
  1. Sewing. sewn or made to resemble a sunburst; having the rays or lines of design flared from a central point: sunburst pleats; sunburst tucks.

Origin of sunburst

1
First recorded in 1810–20; sun + burst

Words Nearby sunburst

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use sunburst in a sentence

  • Then the conversation turned upon the feud that existed between Viking and sunburst, the river-drivers and the fishers.

    Mrs. Falchion, Complete | Gilbert Parker
  • sunburst lay cloyed among the products of field and forest and stream.

    Mrs. Falchion, Complete | Gilbert Parker
  • I also asked that she would meet me in sunburst that evening at eight o'clock, at a place indicated by me.

    Mrs. Falchion, Complete | Gilbert Parker
  • No two classes of people could be more unlike than the salmon-fishers of sunburst and the mill-hands and river-drivers of Viking.

    Mrs. Falchion, Complete | Gilbert Parker
  • Then I went quickly down into the valley,—for I was late,—and trudged eagerly on to sunburst.

    Mrs. Falchion, Complete | Gilbert Parker

British Dictionary definitions for sunburst

sunburst

/ (ˈsʌnˌbɜːst) /


noun
  1. a burst of sunshine, as through a break in the clouds

  2. a pattern or design resembling that of the sun

  1. a jewelled brooch with this pattern

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012