sun worshiper
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8.7
- noun
- /sʌn ˈwɜːrʃɪpər/
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adorador del sol
- The beach was crowded with sun worshipers soaking up the rays and enjoying the warm weather.
Examples
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My sister was a sun worshiper and, as a teenager, went so far as to get up on the roof of the house to sunbathe.
Blog text (16) -
Do you know about the sun worshippers?
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Did you notice the sun worshippers facing the other way on the beach... toward the sun?
Blog text (32) -
Look, sun worshippers, like the Egyptians.
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A variety of sun worshippers inhabit the Atlantic Ocean beach only a short walk away.
Academic text (1996) -
Most of us sun worshippers trust, not know, that the sun does regulate the globe's climate.
Blog text (25) -
The Indians that lived out here, the Gabrielinos, were sun worshippers," Bosch said.
Fiction book (2001) -
Here you will see many local families taking advantage of life in paradise: children splashing in the surf, fathers being buried in the sand, young lovers holding hands while frolicking in the waves, and plenty of sun worshipers spread out on colorful sarongs along the beach.
Blog text (17) -
This is not a pagan rite of a group of modern sun worshipers; it is a typical day in the life of Father Reginald Foster, a Carmelite monk from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Academic text (1994) -
Many ancient cultures, such as the Incas and Egyptians, were known to be sun worshipers, performing rituals to honor the sun.
How Devout
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who worships the sun' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'sun' (the star) and 'worshiper' (a person who shows reverence); the compound follows normal English noun-noun composition and requires no idiomatic reading. This concept is also expressed similarly across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The term sun worshiper comes from ancient people who prayed to the sun and held ceremonies to honor it. So a worshiper is someone who 'worships' the sun in a religion, and by simple extension the phrase can also mean someone who really 'loves' the sun, like a 'sunbather'.