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# tanned

adjective (tanned); also past form of the verb tan (tan, tans, tanned, tanning)

«tanned» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Tanned skin has become darker after being in the sun. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tanned/#m1)
2. Tanned leather is animal skin that has been made into leather by a special treatment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tanned/#m2)
3. (UK, informal, old) To tan someone's hide is to beat them — an old rough phrase. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tanned/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and stories it describes people after a holiday in the sun; in safety and science lessons, a tan is the skin's reaction to sun, and too much sun can burn and harm skin, so use sun cream. In history and crafts, tanners made leather. Phrases: tanned skin, get tanned, sun-tanned.

### Examples

- She came back from Spain looking tanned. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tanned/#x1)
- His arms were tanned from working in the garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tanned/#x2)
- A tan is a sign your skin has had too much sun, so wear sun cream. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tanned/#x3)
- The belt was made of tanned leather. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tanned/#x4)
- The tanned surfer waved to us. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tanned/#x5)
- You can get tanned even on a cloudy day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tanned/#x6)
- But there he was, a young man, tanned and dusty with travel, in the uniform of an officer of the king’s guard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tanned/#x7)

### Note

Double n: tan → tanned, tanning. «Suntanned» means the same as tanned skin. Myth: a tan is not «healthy» — it means the sun has damaged the skin a little. Do not mix up with «tan» the light brown colour.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Tradition often reads the Song of Songs as a story of God and Israel, and the tanned maiden as Israel in a hard exile. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and stories it describes people after a holiday in the sun; in safety and science lessons, a tan is the skin's reaction to sun, and too much sun can burn and harm skin, so use sun cream. In history and crafts, tanners made leather. Phrases: tanned skin, get tanned, sun-tanned.

### Examples

- Look not upon me, that I am swarthy, that the sun hath tanned me; my mother's sons were incensed against me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.' (Writings SNG.1.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tanned/#x1)

### Note

Double n: tan → tanned, tanning. «Suntanned» means the same as tanned skin. Myth: a tan is not «healthy» — it means the sun has damaged the skin a little. Do not mix up with «tan» the light brown colour.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tanned» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tanned/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «tanned» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tanned/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tanned» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/tanned.html) on Mova free.