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Definition of 'moon'English
Noun
( en-noun)
The largest satellite of Earth.
Any natural satellite of a planet.
(literary) A month, particularly a lunar month.
* {{quote-book
|year=1737
|author=John Brickell
|title=The natural history of North-Carolina
|page=308-309
|passage=The number their age by Moons' or Winters, and say a Woman or a Man is so many '''Moons''' old, and so they do with all memorable Actions in life, accounting it to be so many '''Moons or Winters since such or such a thing happened. ''Note: in earlier modern English, many nouns were capitalized, similar to present day German. }}
* {{quote-book
|year=1822
|author=Thomas Love Peacock
|title=Maid Marian
|page=238
|passage=Many moons had waxed and waned when on the afternoon of a lovely summer day a lusty broad-boned knight was riding through the forest of Sherwood.}}
- (Shakespeare)
A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
Derived terms
* blood moon
* blue moon
* crescent moon
* full moon
* half-moon, half moon
* harvest moon
* howl at the moon
* hung the moon
* hunter's moon
( rel-mid4)
* man in the moon
* moon bear
* moon-blind
* moon cake
* mooncalf
* moon-face
* moonfish
* moonflower
* moon guitar
* mooning
( rel-mid4)
* moonish
* moonlight
* moonlit
* moonly
* moon pool
* moonraker
* moonsail
* moonwalk
* moonwort
( rel-mid4)
* moon zither
* new moon
* old moon
* once in a blue moon
* over the moon
* phase of the moon
* smuggler's moon
* thumbnail moon
* waning moon
* waxing moon
( rel-bottom)
Verb
( en-verb)
(colloquial) To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest
(colloquial) (usually followed by'' over''' ''or'' ' after ) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
- Sarah mooned over Sam's photograph for months.
- You've been mooning after her forever, why not just ask her out?
To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
* 1898 , Joseph Conrad,
- We were only three on board. The poor old skipper mooned in the cabin.
To expose to the rays of the Moon.
* Holland
- If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned .
Related terms
* month
* moonsick
See also
* lunar
* Moonie
* Selene
External links
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Similar to 'moon'man, men, mien, main, muon, mon, min, mun, mown, moan, mean, moun, mawn, meon
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