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sun-shot

sun-shot is the alternative form of sun shot.

sun-shot is the alternative form of sunshot.

Meaning of sun shot

Noun

sun shot (plural sun shots)

  1. A measurement of the angle of the sun, made using a sextant, usually at noon.
    • Not so long ago, most surveyors thought that sun shots and star shots were more trouble than they were worth.1987, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ACSM technical papers, page 167
  2. A photograph that includes the sun.
    • When hunting for subject matter for your sun shots, investigate the picture possibilities you previously passed up as being run-of-the-mill scenes.1949 December, Ray Atkeson, “Get the Sun In Your Pictures”, in Popular Photography, volume 25, number 6, page 159

Meaning of sunshot

Adjective

sunshot (comparative more sunshot, superlative most sunshot)

  1. (poetic) Shot through with sunlight.
    • Temple stood in the stand, listening to the birds among the sunshot leaves, listening, looking about.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 91

Forms of sun-shot

Noun
pluralsun-shots
Adjective
comparativemore sun-shot
superlativemost sun-shot

Questions about sun-shot

What is sun-shot the alternative form of?
Sun-shot is the alternative form of sun shot.

Words near sun-shot in the dictionary

  1. sun-like
  2. sun-lounger
  3. sun-parlor
  4. sun-parlors
  5. sun-shine
  6. sun-shot
  7. sun-shots
  8. sun-splashed
  9. sun-star
  10. sun-stars
  11. sun-stead

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sun-shot (page history and authors); sun shot (page history and authors); sunshot (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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