Definitions for moons

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moons moon

Spelling: [moon]

IPA: /mun/

Moons is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in moons (mnoos).

Definitions for moons

noun

1. the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km).
2. this body during a particular lunar month, or during a certain period of time, or at a certain point of time, regarded as a distinct object or entity. Compare full moon, half-moon, new moon, waning moon, waxing moon.
3. a lunar month, or, in general, a month.
4. any planetary satellite:
5. something shaped like an orb or a crescent.
6. moonlight.
7. a platyfish.
8. Slang. the buttocks, especially when bared.

Idioms

1. blue moon, a very long period of time:

verb (used with object)

1. to spend (time) idly:
2. to illuminate by or align against the moon.
3. Slang. to expose one's buttocks to as a prank or gesture of disrespect.

verb (used without object)

1. to act or wander abstractedly or listlessly:
2. to sentimentalize or remember nostalgically:
3. to gaze dreamily or sentimentally at something or someone:
4. Slang. to expose one's buttocks suddenly and publicly as a prank or gesture of disrespect.

Origin of moons

before 900; Middle English mone, Old English mōna; cognate with Old High German māno, Old Norse māni, Gothic mena; akin to German Mond moon, Latin mēnsis month, Greek mḗnē moon, Sanskrit māsa

Examples for moons

It was a moonless night, and a haze of cloud obscured the stars.

It was a moonless night, but the sky was clear and spangled with stars.

It was a moonless night, and had been a dark one; but it was now close upon morning.

It was by this time in the small hours of a dark, moonless night.

The building seemed to have grown larger under the moonless sky.

It was a moonless night, but clear and brilliant with stars.

It was indeed a moonless night, but he did not make for the highroad.

When he does, for short walks on moonless nights or for the occasional meal, these evanescent periods of freedom are thrilling.

It was a moonless night, thick with stars above, very dark on the water.

Few of them can expect salvation to drop from a moonless sky, as it did for Jessica Buchanan last month.