Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rising sun

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English

Syllables: ris-ing -sun
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

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Any of various places:

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Any of various places:

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Any of various places:

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Any of various places:

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Any of various places:

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Any of many roadhouses or public houses, past or present, in Anglophone countries; calques exist in other lands and languages as well.

Example Sentences

"There is a house in New Orleans, it's called the Rising Sun It's been the ruin of many a poor girl Great God, and I for one"
"Sixty years after the end of World War II, the thinning ranks of American ex-POWs have received neither compensation for their slave labor under the Rising Sun nor an apology from Japan."

Etymology

By proprialization from rising Sun, driven by the theme that the Sun is very important in human affairs and that sunrise is an important time of day, both for the advent of daylight and because the rest of the day, with all its potential, lies ahead. The Japanese symbolism reflects that Japan is the easternmost country of East Asia, and the East is the place of the sunrise. The pub names reflect both the general importance of the rising Sun in human affairs and also the heraldic use of the rising Sun as a symbol for royalty, nobles, goodness, and so on.

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

the Rising Sun (canonical)

Phrases

Land of the Rising Sun

Frequently Paired Words

Land of the Rising Sun

Questions

What does rising sun mean?: Any of various places:
Where does rising sun come from?: By proprialization from rising Sun, driven by the theme that the Sun is very important in human affairs and that sunrise is an important time of day, both for the advent of daylight and because the rest of the day, with all its potential, lies ahead. The Japanese symbolism reflects that Japan is the easternmost country of East Asia, and the East is the place of the sunrise. The pub names reflect both the general importance of the rising Sun in human affairs and also the heraldic use of the rising Sun as a symbol for royalty, nobles, goodness, and so on.

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