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sun god

or sun-god

noun

  1. the sun considered or personified as a deity.
  2. a god identified or associated with the sun.


sun-god

noun

  1. the sun considered as a personal deity
  2. a deity associated with the sun or controlling its movements
“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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sun god1

First recorded in 1585–95
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Example Sentences

Another way to think of it is taking the birthday of the sun god, and turn it into the birthday of God the Son.

He is the Tinseltown sun god around which everything revolves.

"Silver and—gold," she murmured, looking into the radiant distance where Thebes lay cradled in the arms of the sun-god.

Ra was the sun-god, especially worshipped at Heliopolis,--the symbol of light and heat.

In all the ancient nations the sun-god was a prominent deity, as the giver of heat and light, and hence of fertility to the earth.

The creative tears of Ra, the sun god, fell as shining rays upon the earth.

For this offence against divine law, Shamash, the sun god, pronounces the Eagle's doom.

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