Submitted by ParticleDetector t3_z63e7m in Showerthoughts
AxialGem t1_iy0wqlc wrote
Reply to comment by felixrocket7835 in You see more suns at night than in the daytime. by ParticleDetector
If you're big into dictionary definitions, wiktionary has the following:
"A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system"
And OED lists: "any star around which planets move"
The thing is, the usage of a word determines its meaning, not any one definition. And the word sun is in fact habitually used to mean 'star,' just read or listen to works of sci-fi I guess. If you pretend it's not, you're simply not capturing the full meaning.
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