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solar

UK/ˈsəʊ.lə//ˈsoʊ.ləɹ/

solar adjective: of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun. Also the ellipsis of solar energy.

Adjective (1)

solar (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun.
    • solar light
    • solar rays
  2. (obsolete) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
    • and proud beside, as solar people are1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
  3. Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
  4. Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
    • They denominate some herbs solar, and some lunar.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
    • Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid.2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023
  5. Employing solar power.
    • a solar furnace

Noun (1)

solar (uncountable)

  1. A fictional currency used in science fiction.

Noun (2)

solar (plural solars)

  1. (historical) A loft or upper chamber forming the private accommodation of the head of the household in a medieval hall; a garret room.

Adjective (2) capitalized: Solar

Solar (not comparable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of solar (“pertaining to the Sun (the star Sol)”).
    • We have not yet the instruments that we want for that work, but I have asked for a Solar spectrograph, and I am already in the preliminary talkings to order a spectroheliograph […]1906, Filipe Valle, in Arthur Schuster (editor), Transactions of the International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research, Volume I, [Victoria] University [of Manchester] Press, page 115
    • Values at the Solar location (Merrifield, 1992) are denoted by the subscript ○, and the present epoch is t ≡ 0, […]2001, John J. Matese et al., "Oort cloud flux due to the Galactic tide", in Mikhail Ya. Marov and Hans Rickman (editors), Collisional Processes in the Solar System, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 93

Also used as

solar is also the ellipsis of solar energy.

solar meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

solar in Hindi

of or pertaining to the sun
सौर saur

solar in Marathi

सौर

solar in Urdu

of or pertaining to the sun
شَمْسی śamsī

solar in Bengali

of or pertaining to the sun
আফতাবী aftabī
More languagesFewer languages
solar in Telugu
సౌర saura
solar in Punjabi
ਸੂਰਜੀ
solar in Gujarati
સૌર
solar in Odia
ସୌର
solar in Sanskrit
सौर saura
solar in Nepali
सौर्य, सोलर
solar in Pashto
لمريز lmariz
solar in Arabic
شَمْسِيّ šamsiyy
solar in Malay
matahari, suria, kemataharian, syamsi
Sindhi
شَمْسِي šamsī

Examples of solar in a sentence

  • The most important and most expensive part of any solar cell is a silicon plate.
  • Imagine what might happen if it were possible to harness solar energy fully.
  • According to the Metonic cycle, a lunar calendar begins on the same solar date every 19 years.

All 40 example sentences with solar

Synonyms of solar

Forms of solar

pluralsolars

Origin of solar

From Late Middle English solar, from Latin sōlāris, from sōl (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).

From Middle English solar, soler; from a conflation of Old English soler, solere (“raised platform; loft, upper room, upper part of a house, soler”), from Latin sōlārium; and Old English solor, salor (“residence, dwelling; hall; palace”), from Proto-West Germanic *salaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *salaz, *salą (“house, room, hall”). More at sale.

By surface analysis, Sol + -ar.

Words formed from solar

Phrases with solar

76 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with solar

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Questions about solar

What does solar mean?
Solar means of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun.
What is solar in Hindi?
Solar in Hindi is सौर (saur). See Solar meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is solar?
Solar can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce solar?
Solar is pronounced /ˈsəʊ.lə/ (UK).

Words near solar in the dictionary

  1. solans
  2. solanum
  3. solanums
  4. solapsone
  5. Solapur
  6. solar
  7. solar apex
  8. solar apexes
  9. solar apices
  10. solar array
  11. solar barge

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: solar (page history and authors); Solar (page history and authors); solar (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); solar (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); solar (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); solar (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); solar (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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