Suntan

Definition: Suntan

Suntan

Noun

1. A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun.

Verb

1. Get a tan from being exposed to the sun.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Suntan

Crosswords: Suntan

Don't just lay there gettin' a suntan, ain't gonna do you no good anyhow (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks)

Only instead of a suntan, you get your brain cells rearranged (This Island Earth; writing credit: Raymond F. Jones; Franklin Coen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Beauty or Make-Up Skin Care Preparations, Sunscreen, Suntan Preparations, and Manicure and Pedicure Preparations: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The Suntan Book (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Natural Suntan (reference)

• Suntan (reference)

• Suntan [EP] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Once it is severely damaged, skin does not rejuvenate itself and scar tissue never goes away. Yet as the American population ages, we continue to value the appearance of youthful skin and a good suntan. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "suntan": suntan cream ♦ suntan lotion. Additional references.

Albanian

nxirje (blackening, blackness, tarnish). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سفع (burn, singe, tan), ‏السفع إسمارار البشرة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

тен (complexion, tan), загар. (various references)

Chinese 

�'黑 (Sunned, Sunning, suntanned, tanned, tanning). (various references)

Czech

opálení (sun tan, sunburn, tan). (various references)

Danish

sun tan-lotion (suntan simulating preparation), solbvuningsmiddel (suntan simulating preparation). (various references)

Dutch

middel voor het verkrijgen van een bruine huidskleur (suntan simulating preparation). (various references)

Farsi 

قهوه مایل بسرخ , قهوه ای شدن پوست بدن دراثرافتاب . (various references)

French

hâler, bronzage (suntanning). (various references)

German

sonnenbräune (tan). (various references)

Greek 

μαύρισμα από ήλιο (tan), μαύρισμα (blackening, tan). (various references)

Hebrew 

שזוף (bronzed, caramelization, sun burning, sun tan, tan, tanned, tanning), �"שתזפות (sun bathing, sun burn, sun tanning, sunburn, tanning). (various references)

Hungarian

lesülés (sunburn, sun-tan). (various references)

Italian

abbronzatura (tan, tanning). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

サンケア指数 (belt, carefree, Saint-Simonism, San Diego, sand, sandal, sandwich, sandwich man, Sankei Sports, Sanskrit, sans-souci, Santa Clara, Santa Claus, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santa Maria, soundtrack, sun deck, sun protection index, sundae, sunset, sunshade, sunshine, suntan oil, Suntory, Suntory Hall, syndicalism, syndicalist, thunder, thunderbird). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

サンタン . (various references)

Manx

ruyghey greiney, daah greiney (sunburn). (various references)

Pig Latin

untansay.(various references)

Portuguese

bronzeado (bronze, brown, tan). (various references)

Russian 

загар (sunburn, suntans, tan). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

preplanulost (tan). (various references)

Spanish

bronceado (brazen, bronze, bronzed, sun tanned, sunburn, sunburnt, tan, tanned). (various references)

Swedish

solbränna (sunburn, tan). (various references)

Turkish

yanık ten (tan), bronzlaşmak (become bronze, tan), bronzlaşmış ten, bronz ten. (various references)

Ukrainian

колір загару, загар (sunburn). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "suntan": suntanned, suntans. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Suntan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cuntano, Kuntang, sanaan, Santano, santen, seitan, Sennan, senta, shunten, Suetin, Sundin, sunnan, sunta, yunan. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aunts, sunna, tunas.

-2 letters: ants, anus, aunt, nans, nuns, nuts, stun, sunn, tans, taus, tuna, tuns, utas.

-3 letters: ant, nan, nun, nus, nut, sat, sau, sun, tan, tas, tau, tun, uns, uta, uts.

-4 letters: an, as, at, na, nu, ta, un, us, ut.

+1 letter: stannum, suntans.

+2 letters: annulets, huntsman, insulant, insurant, manhunts, nauseant, nunataks, quinnats, quintans, shantung, stannous, stannums, stuntman, tonneaus, tunnages, unfasten.

+3 letters: annuities, butanones, countians, fountains, gauntness, insinuate, insulants, insurants, inundates, lunations, mountains, nauseants, nonadults, nutations, quantongs, quintains, ruminants, saturnine, shantungs, sinuating, subtenant, suntanned, tyrannous, unaptness, unfastens, unseating, unstained, unstating, untangles.

+4 letters: anilinctus, annuitants, annulments, antennules, antiauxins, antibusing, antinausea, antonymous, astounding, candlenuts, clinquants, conjugants, consultant, convulsant, enunciates, fundaments, grandaunts, incautions, inoculants, insinuated, insinuates, insinuator, insouciant, insulating, insulation, inundators, jauntiness, lanthanums, nauseating, nonauthors, nonmutants, orangutans, outspanned, quaintness, ruinations, sanguinity, sauntering, staunching, stuntwoman, subtenancy, subtenants, sunbathing, supinating, supination, sustaining, sustenance, thysanuran, transuding, uncanniest, uncleanest, underpants, understand, unfastened, unhandiest, unitarians, univalents, unmanliest, unpleasant, unsanitary, unstacking, unstrained, unswathing, upstanding, uraninites, urinations.