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sun bonnet

sun bonnet is the alternative form of sunbonnet.

Meaning of sunbonnet

Noun

sunbonnet (plural sunbonnets)

  1. A hat (bonnet) worn for protection from bright sunlight.
    • “Put on your sunbonnet,” she ordered.
      “Oh, please, Aunt Elizabeth, don’t make me wear that horrid thing.”
      Aunt Elizabeth, wasting no further words, picked up the bonnet and tied it on Emily’s head. Emily had to yield. But from the depths of the sunbonnet issued a voice, defiant though tremulous.1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon
  2. A plant of the genera Leibnitzia or Chaptalia, native to Asia and the Americas.

Forms of sun bonnet

pluralsun bonnets

Words formed from sun bonnet

Questions about sun bonnet

What is sun bonnet the alternative form of?
Sun bonnet is the alternative form of sunbonnet.

Words near sun bonnet in the dictionary

  1. sun bitterns
  2. sun blind
  3. sun blinds
  4. sun blocker
  5. sun blockers
  6. sun bonnet
  7. sun bonnets
  8. sun bunnies
  9. sun bunny
  10. sun candle
  11. sun candles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sun bonnet (page history and authors); sunbonnet (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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