Word.ws English Dictionary

sun paintings

sun paintings is the plural of sun painting.

Meaning of sun painting

Noun

sun painting (countable and uncountable, plural sun paintings)

  1. (countable, figuratively, historical) A photograph.
    • Right at the beginning of the history of photography in the 1840s, before artists reacted violently against the threat posed by the new so-called sun paintings, a most extraordinary thing happened.1971, Christopher Neve, “Serendipity And A Mass Portrait”, in Country Life, volume 150, page 104
    Synonyms:
    sun picture
  2. (figuratively, historical, uncountable) Photography.

Questions about sun paintings

What is sun paintings the plural of?
Sun paintings is the plural of sun painting.

Words near sun paintings in the dictionary

  1. sun opals
  2. sun orchid
  3. sun outage
  4. sun outages
  5. sun painting
  6. sun paintings
  7. sun pan
  8. sun pans
  9. sun parlor
  10. sun parlors
  11. sun parlour

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sun paintings (page history and authors); sun painting (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sun paintings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sun_paintings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.