sun worshipper

sun worshippernoun

• 1

  One who reveres the Sun as a deity.

  • Here Christian, or Jew, Sun-worshipper or Pagan implore their several gods unmolested.
  • He had fallen into the hands of descendants of the ancient sun worshippers. His seeming rescue by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony—the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own, and the priestess had come from the inner temple to save him from the polluting hands of worldlings—to save him as a human offering to their flaming deity.
• 2

  A person who enjoys exposure to sunlight; an avid sunbather.

  • "The light hurts you?" she said, for the sun was coming into the room. "Change places with me, I am a sun worshipper."
  • A bikini . . . tends to slip and slide a bit in the surf. But for a die-hard sun worshipper, a two-piece suit is the next best thing to nothing at all.