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sundial

[suhn-dahy-uhl, -dahyl] / ˈsʌnˌdaɪ əl, -ˌdaɪl /
NOUN
clock
Synonyms
STRONGEST
timer
STRONG
alarm chronograph chronometer hourglass metronome pendulum stopwatch ticker timekeeper timepiece watch
WEAK
Big Ben chroniker digital watch tick-tock timemarker
NOUN
timepiece
Synonyms
STRONG
calendar chronograph chronometer chronoscope clepsydra clock dial gnomon horologe hourglass metronome pendulum repeater stopwatch watch
WEAK
alarm clock isochronon time-keeper

Example Sentences

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You’re watching a ticker that moves like a sundial.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

There are secrets, a garden replete with a sundial and creepy statues and a house that traps its residents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

Place that shade on a sundial and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex could time her bakes to it with the utmost accuracy.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2025

A new, interactive outdoor sculpture by conceptual artist Chloë Bass also functions as an analemmatic sundial.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2023

He was the first person in Greece to make a sundial, a map of the known world and a celestial globe that showed the patterns of the constellations.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan