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- [suhn]
- /sʌn/
- /sʌn/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [suhn]
- /sʌn/
Definitions of sunn word
- noun sunn a tall East Indian shrub, Crotalaria juncea, of the legume family, having slender branches and yellow flowers, and an inner bark that yields a hemplike fiber used for making ropes, sacking, etc. 1
- noun sunn the fiber. 1
- noun sunn a leguminous plant, Crotalaria juncea, of the East Indies, having yellow flowers 0
- noun sunn the hemplike fibre obtained from the inner bark of this plant, used in making rope, sacking, etc 0
- abbreviation SUNN sun2 0
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Origin of sunn
First appearance:
before 1580 One of the 35% oldest English words
1580-90; < Hindi san < Sanskrit śāṇa
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Parts of speech for Sunn
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
sunn popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 75% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
sunn usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerTop questions with sunn
- what is sunn hemp?