Definitions for halfmoon

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halfmoon half·moon

Spelling: [haf-moon, hahf-]

IPA: /ˈhæfˌmun, ˈhɑf-/

Halfmoon is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in halfmoon (afhlmnoo).

Definitions for halfmoon

noun

1. an edible fish, Medialuna californiensis, found in southern California, having a slate-gray body.
2. the moon when, at either quadrature, half its disk is illuminated.
3. the phase of the moon at this time.
4. something having the shape of a half-moon or crescent.

Origin of halfmoon

First recorded in 1490-1500; half + moon

Examples for halfmoon

For weeks the halfmoon kept steadily on her course, a little south of west.

THE storm that struck the halfmoon took her entirely unaware.

It was past ten when the phaeton turned into halfmoon Street.

Skipper Simms boasted of the seamanship that had saved the halfmoon—his own seamanship of course.

Then, of a sudden, the second officer of the halfmoon straightened to his full height.

It almost changed his estimate of the passenger of the halfmoon.

He went away from halfmoon Street with reassurances for the countess.

It is true that I doubted you at first—I doubted everyone connected with the halfmoon.

Half an hour later they stepped to the deck of the halfmoon.

I'll ride to halfmoon Flat for the constable and a posse to put a stop to this.