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Rising Sun

Rising Sun proper noun: an unincorporated community in Pope County, Illinois.

rising sun: an unincorporated community in Pope County, Illinois
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Proper noun (1)

Rising Sun

  1. An unincorporated community in Pope County, Illinois.
  2. An unincorporated community in White County, Illinois.
  3. A city, the county seat of Ohio County, Indiana, also located in Randolph Township.
  4. A town in Cecil County, Maryland.
  5. An unincorporated community in Leflore County, Mississippi.
  6. An unincorporated community in the town of Utica, Crawford County, Wisconsin.
  7. A hamlet in Calstock parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX3970).
  8. Any of many roadhouses or public houses, past or present, in Anglophone countries; calques exist in other lands and languages as well.
    • There is a house in New Orleans, it's called the Rising Sun
      It's been the ruin of many a poor girl
      Great God, and I for one2013 [original era unknown], “[folk song lyrics by unknown authors, early 20th century]”, in Steve Sullivan, editor, Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, volume 1, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN...

Proper noun (2)

the Rising Sun

  1. (informal) The flag of Japan.
  2. (metonymically) Imperial Japan; Imperial Japanese rule.
    • Sixty years after the end of World War II, the thinning ranks of American ex-POWs have received neither compensation for their slave labor under the Rising Sun nor an apology from Japan.2006, John Glusman, chapter 26, in Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941–1945, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, pages 464–5

Rising Sun meaning in Tamil and Kannada

Rising Sun in Tamil

உதயசூரியன், எழுஞாயிறு

Rising Sun in Kannada

ಏರುಂಬಿಸಿಲು, ಏರುಬಿಸಿಲು, ಮೂಡುನೇಸರ್, ಕಿರುನೇಸರು

Origin of Rising Sun

By proprialization from rising Sun, driven by the theme that the Sun is very important in human affairs and that sunrise is an important time of day, both for the advent of daylight and because the rest of the day, with all its potential, lies ahead. The Japanese symbolism reflects that Japan is the easternmost country of East Asia, and the East is the place of the sunrise. The pub names reflect both the general importance of the rising Sun in human affairs and also the heraldic use of the rising Sun as a symbol for royalty, nobles, goodness, and so on.

Questions about Rising Sun

What does Rising Sun mean?
Rising Sun means an unincorporated community in Pope County, Illinois.
What is Rising Sun in Tamil?
Rising Sun in Tamil is உதயசூரியன், எழுஞாயிறு. See Rising Sun meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Rising Sun?
Rising Sun is a proper noun.

Words near Rising Sun in the dictionary

  1. rising seat
  2. rising seats
  3. rising star
  4. Rising Star Cave
  5. rising stars
  6. Rising Sun
  7. rising three
  8. rising threes
  9. rising through the ranks
  10. rising to the bait
  11. rising to the challenge

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Rising Sun (page history and authors); rising sun (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rising sun (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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