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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sunny
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beautiful/fine/sunny morning
▪ Outside it was a beautiful morning.
fine/sunny/fair/dry
▪ If the weather is fine, we’ll eat outside.
▪ Water pot plants daily during spells of dry weather.
have a cheerful/sunny etc disposition (=have a happy character)
sunny spells
▪ Tuesday will be dry with sunny spells.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
afternoon
▪ The wind and currents were set fair when the Hokule'a paddled away on that sunny afternoon in March.
▪ But the friendship ended on that sunny afternoon.
▪ On a sunny afternoon we explored the gentler scenery near Henley and Oxford.
▪ The sort of place that still does double features, which it was doing that bright sunny afternoon.
▪ Today we have had snow again this morning, but quite a nice sunny afternoon.
▪ I met the Colonel's wife while I was waiting for Martinho outside church one sunny afternoon.
▪ It's a lovely sunny afternoon.
▪ On this sunny afternoon in May, I was inclined to agree.
day
▪ Despite the cold, I remember, it was a clear, sunny day.
▪ It is a beautiful, sunny day.
▪ Ventilate well on sunny days but remember to close vents in the evening.
▪ On a sunny day, it shimmers brightly, almost obscuring the fine frescoes and reliefs that now adorn the structure.
▪ The ground was hardened by a sharp frost making the going firm on a fine, sunny day.
▪ The following week, on a gorgeous sunny day, I worked both in the sun and in comparative darkness.
▪ It was high summer, a warm sunny day.
▪ He did one of New York tall buildings, a sunny day.
days
▪ Ventilate well on sunny days but remember to close vents in the evening.
▪ If your child wears yellow rain boots on sunny days, have one of the princes do the same.
▪ So a long hot summer with bright, sunny days well into September will result in a high concentration of both pigments.
▪ Mundo de siete pozos was composed in the relatively sunny days before the onset of cancer.
▪ The mere memory of it darkens my most sunny days.
▪ Conclusions: The radiometer was designed for use on clear sunny days out of doors.
▪ Number of sunny days is right up there for me, too.
disposition
▪ It makes a fine coupling for the E flat Quartet, being of a comparably sunny disposition.
▪ Makes for strong bones and a sunny disposition.
interval
▪ Outlook for tomorrow and Sunday: Mainly dry and mild, with sunny intervals after clearance of any early mist or fog.
▪ Many sheltered central and south-eastern areas might stay dry with perhaps some sunny intervals.
▪ East Anglia: Rather cloudy, mainly dry, some sunny intervals.
▪ The day should gradually become dry with sunny intervals.
▪ Any overnight mist or fog will clear quickly to leave most of the country with sunny intervals and scattered showers.
morning
▪ It was turning into a bright, sunny morning.
▪ It is my favorite, especially on a sunny morning when the sun streams through the stained glass front door.
▪ It was a bright, sunny morning, + mum + I were going to the school exchange for some uniform.
▪ In the increasingly sunny morning, the convoy set off for the drive to the marble factory at Vicenza.
▪ Dzo bells lulled us to sleep and then woke us to a clear and sunny morning.
▪ It was a glorious sunny morning with very little wind.
▪ It was a pleasant sunny morning for the event, the ceremony commenced at 10.20am.
▪ On sunny mornings guests can have the added pleasure of breakfasting on the verandah.
position
▪ Grow garlic by planting single unwrapped cloves in a sunny position from November to March.
▪ These plants share an enjoyment of light, well-nourished soil and a sunny position.
▪ However, if this is north facing it may make more sense to move it to a sunnier position.
▪ A sunny position and well-drained soil ensure success.
▪ Give it a sunny position and it will be your pal for life.
▪ Stand the containers in a sunny position, feed and water regularly, and top dress annually with fresh compost.
▪ Choose a sheltered sunny position with well-drained and composted soil which is weed free.
▪ Put out new plants in May or June in a warm, sunny position in well-drained soil.
side
▪ Lili found Serge lying on a yellow daybed, on the sunny side of the aquamarine rectangle.
▪ And there is, of course, the less sunny side to the Fox decade.
▪ She walked round the pond to the sunny side where the water's surface was devoid of weed.
▪ And that's good news for the butterflies and bees who are delighting in the sunny side of farming 1990s style.
▪ On the sunny side there is light, there is warmth, and the heat of the sun is dry.
▪ They were breakfasting in a highway café - eggs sunny side up.
▪ Idly I wondered why he insisted on them being cooked sunny side up.
spell
▪ It traps the warmth of the odd sunny spell, and wards off the critical few degrees of cold.
▪ Drier weather will follow south with sunny spells, particularly in the more eastern parts.
▪ East Anglia: Mostly dry with sunny spells.
▪ Drier with sunny spells for all areas on Thursday afternoon.
▪ And the outlook for tomorrow's much the same: cloud in the east, sunny spells in the west.
▪ Elsewhere, it will be a day of sunny spells and scattered showers.
spot
▪ It is set in a quiet and sunny spot just 12 minutes walk from the village.
▪ Like rhubarb, asparagus and many other food plants, they thrive in enriched soil in a sunny spot.
weather
▪ For the moment, however, the sunny weather of Rome may remain the only manifestation of that contribution.
▪ Such renderings always show pleasant sunny weather, and slim and elegant people walking in corners of treelined plazas.
▪ The third and final session was blessed with warm and sunny weather so we all got tired because of the heat!
▪ I stay in as much as I can, even in hot sunny weather.
▪ Warm sunny weather is essential during harvesting of the crop to enable the plant to make its fragrant oil.
▪ The very hot and sunny weather on the final day was a welcome bonus.
▪ The changing leaves and sunny weather turned this storybook tourist destination into everything it is cracked up to be.
▪ I should have liked to have seen Sligo at the turn of the century, or failing that, in sunny weather.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sunny/bright intervals
▪ Any overnight mist or fog will clear quickly to leave most of the country with sunny intervals and scattered showers.
▪ East Anglia: Rather cloudy, mainly dry, some sunny intervals.
▪ Many sheltered central and south-eastern areas might stay dry with perhaps some sunny intervals.
▪ Outlook for tomorrow and Sunday: Mainly dry and mild, with sunny intervals after clearance of any early mist or fog.
▪ The day should gradually become dry with sunny intervals.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sunny afternoon
▪ a sunny kitchen
▪ a lovely sunny afternoon
▪ It's going to be sunny all day.
▪ The weather will remain dry with sunny spells.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the daisies will be happy to have a good place to grow, in such a safe sunny corner.
▪ I fell in love with Rory, one remembered sunny spring, when I was sixteen and he was twenty-two.
▪ It ain't sunny, it's just sort of grey.
▪ It traps the warmth of the odd sunny spell, and wards off the critical few degrees of cold.
▪ Only after the second death on that mild, sunny Saturday eight days ago did the pace of planes and people slacken.
▪ Pupils were asked, in separate questions, when it is sunniest and when it is hottest.
▪ The morning is sunny and bright, glorious, as it should be.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
sunny

Pondfish \Pond"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water fishes belonging to the family Centrarchid[ae]; -- called also pond perch, and sunfish.

Note: The common pondfish of New England ( Lepomis gibbosus) is called also bream, pumpkin seed, and sunny. See Sunfish. The long-eared pondfish ( Lepomis auritus) of the Eastern United States is distinguished by its very long opercular flap.

sunny

Sunfish \Sun"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)

  1. A very large oceanic plectognath fish ( Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.

  2. Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachid[ae]. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee ( L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish ( L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.

  3. The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.

  4. The opah.

  5. The basking, or liver, shark.

  6. Any large jellyfish.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sunny

"full of sun," early 14c., from sun (n.) + -y (2). Compare Dutch zonnig, German sonnig. Figurative sense of "cheerful" is attested from 1540s. Sunny side in reference to optimistic outlook is from 1831. Eggs served sunny side up first attested 1887, in lunch counter slang, in reference to appearance when served.\n\nYoung Man (in Park Row coffee-and-cake saloon)
--Waiter, I want a beefsteak, unpeeled potatoes, and a couple of eggs fried on one side only!\n
\nWaiter (vociferously)
--"Slaughter in the pan," "a Murphy with his coat on," an' "two white wings with the sunny side up!" ["Puck," April 27, 1887] \n\nRelated: Sunnily; sunniness. As a noun meaning "sunfish" from 1835.

Wiktionary
sunny

a. 1 (context of weather or a day English) Featuring a lot of sunshine. 2 (context of a place English) Receiving a lot of sunshine. 3 (context figuratively of a person or a person's mood English) cheerful. 4 Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; brilliant; radiant. adv. (context US regional English) sunny side up n. A sunfish.

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WordNet
sunny

  1. adj. abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining norming"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny" [syn: bright, shining, shiny, sunshiny]

  2. bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" [syn: cheery, gay]

  3. [also: sunniest, sunnier]

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Wikipedia
Sunny

Sunny may refer to:

  • As an adjective, relating to an abundance of sunlight
Sunny (song)

"Sunny" is a song written by Bobby Hebb . It is one of the most performed and recorded popular songs, with hundreds of versions released. BMI rates "Sunny" number 25 in its "Top 100 songs of the century."

Sunny (Morrissey song)

"Sunny" is a song by Morrissey, released as a single in December 1995. It was released by EMI to try to cash in on Morrissey's Southpaw Grammar album that had been released that year by RCA and consisted of three songs that Morrissey had recorded while under contract to EMI.

"Sunny" had initially been planned to appear on the "Boxers" single released in January 1995, and "Black-Eyed Susan" had at one point been allocated to be the B-side of " The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get" in 1994.

Sunny (1930 film)

Sunny is a 1930 all-talking Pre-Code musical comedy film, produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. The movie was based on the Broadway stage hit, Sunny, produced by Charles Dillingham, which played from September 22, 1925, to December 11, 1926. Marilyn Miller, who had played the leading part in the Broadway production, was hired by Warner Brothers to reprise the role that made her the highest-paid star on Broadway. The film starred Lawrence Gray, O. P. Heggie and Inez Courtney.

Sunny (1941 film)

Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern- Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley.

It is the second film version of the musical; the first was made in 1930.

Sunny (musical)

Sunny is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach. The plot involves Sunny, the star of a circus act, who falls for a rich playboy but comes in conflict with his snooty family. This show was the follow-up to the 1920 hit musical Sally, both starring Marilyn Miller in the title roles, and it was Kern's first musical together with Hammerstein. Sunny also became a hit, with its original Broadway production in 1925 running for 517 performances. The London production starred Binnie Hale.

Sunny (2008 film)

Sunny (; lit. "My Dear is Far Away") is a 2008 South Korean film directed by Lee Joon-ik. Soo Ae plays the titular Soon-yi, whose husband enlists to fight in the Vietnam War, and she decides to join a singing group that will travel to Vietnam to perform for the soldiers there.

Sunny (singer)

Lee Soon-kyu (born May 15, 1989), known professionally as Sunny, is an American-born South Korean singer and actress. She is a member of South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. Throughout her career, Sunny has participated in numerous entertainment work including original soundtracks, television variety shows, musical acting and radio hosting.

Sunny (Towa Tei album)

Sunny is the seventh full-length release from Towa Tei released in 2011 . The music stays in the same electronic style as his previous work, Big Fun.

Sunny (1984 film)

Sunny is an Indian film directed by Raj Khosla and released in 1984. The movie stars Sunny Deol, Amrita Singh, Dharmendra, Waheeda Rehman and Sharmila Tagore in lead roles. Dharmendra played the father of his real-life son Sunny Deol in the film but they do not appear onscreen together. They went on to appear onscreen together in films like Sultanat (1986) and Kshatriya (1993). The movie had two notable songs,namely 'aur kya ahade wafa hote hain' and 'jane kya baat hai' penned by Anand Bakshi and composed by R D Burman.

Sunny (2011 film)

Sunny is a 2011 South Korean comedy-drama film. The film is about a middle-aged woman who tries to fulfill her friend's dying wish of reuniting their group of high school friends. The film alternates between two timelines: the present day where the women are middle-aged, and the 1980s when they were in high school. It is the second film by writer-director Kang Hyeong-cheol, who previously directed Scandal Makers (2008).

Released on 4 May 2011, Sunny was the first film of that year to sell five million tickets in South Korea, and became the second highest grossing Korean film by year's end. , it is the all-time 13th best-selling in South Korean history. Kang Hyeong-cheol and Nam Na-yeong won Best Director and Best Editing, respectively, at the Grand Bell Awards. Actress Kang So-ra won several awards for her role as the teenage Ha Chun-hwa.

Sunny (Neil Sedaka album)

Sunny is a 1979 compilation album containing the works of American pop singer Neil Sedaka. It features some of Sedaka's works from 1958–1964, during his affiliation with the RCA studios. It was released in the UK and throughout Western Europe on the RCA Camden label.

Sunny (dog)

Sunny (born June 11, 2012) is a pet dog of the Obama family, the First Family of the United States. Sunny is a female Portuguese Water Dog, who has been called the younger sister of Bo, who holds the title of First Dog of the United States. Sunny was introduced via First Lady Michelle Obama's Twitter account on August 19, 2013.

Sunny (manga)

Sunny is a Japanese slice of life seinen manga series created by Taiyō Matsumoto. It was serialized in Monthly Ikki by Shogakukan. Sunny ended on 27 July 2015.

Sunny (name)

Sunny is a name. It can be a given name, a surname, and a nickname, especially from names such as: Sunil, Sundeep, Sunita, Shams or Suraj. Notable people with the name include:

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Usage examples of "sunny".

Having arranged for the delivery of the antitoxin to the Willowbrook, Lee hurried back to the pediatric ICU, where Sunny was being hooked up to a battery of monitors.

The car pulled away, and Bonner was left feeling suddenly isolated on that sunny stretch of road, with the city close by but somehow unreal, as if it was unpopulated, as if he was the only man on earth.

He then bore a burthen on his heart, which veiled with dark crape the glories of a sunny climate, the heart-cheering tenderness of his adopted child--this was less bitter, this meeting of fate, this atonement.

Whenever he rooted himself in a meadow of buttercups and poppies, or amidst purple monkshood and the peering, sightless faces of field pansies, or within sight of sweet pink clover and tufted violet vetch and sunny ragwort, it appeared at first that here was simply a gratuitous explosion of loveliness, to daze the bees and butterflies.

Sunny New South Wales, when, in less time than it takes to write it, the pocket-money given by a self-denying parient to spend on land, is transferred to the keeping of a Chinaman.

Had she too, when she had dismounted in the parvis royal by the ancient olive tree and ascended the long flight of hollow stairs leading to the palace of the Capets, felt dismay as she fronted her solemn spouse and as her memory flew back to sunny southern towns and the familiar children of her native palaces?

She received me in her boudoir, and on my way thither I could not but observe the perfect quiet and cloistered seclusion that prevaded the whole house,--the house itself seeming only an adjunct of the still and sunny garden, of which one caught a glimpse through the long open hall--windows beyond.

Once Hitler was embroiled with Russia, this happy state might have been almost indefinitely prolonged with ever-growing benefits, and Mussolini might have stood forth in the peace or in the closing year of the war as the wisest statesman the sunny peninsula and its industrious and prolific people had known.

On sunny afternoons Corinna and Rhian worked in the gardens, replanting herbs and flowers where uncaring boots had trampled the young plants.

Hagan limped down the slope towards the seriate windows, through some of which the view towards Linnhe was sunny, while others were cloudy and a few pure black.

Sond, hunting gazelle with his mortal master, Sheykh Majiid al Fakhar, blinked in astonishment at the sound and glanced around, wondering why there was thunder in a perfectly sunny sky.

My closest view of Fuji to that in the print is unfortunately snowless, geishaless, and sunny.

But even though Sunny was typing, stapling, and stamping as quickly as she could, her mind was not on secretarial supplies but on the appointment she and her siblings had with Coach Genghis that evening, and what they could do about it.

She forced a sunny smile, stepping away from the door so he could enter.

Carl Stormer, a Norwegian professor, and Jorgen Hals, an engineer, in Oslo on a sunny day in the early spring of 1928.