Definitions for Moon

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Moon moon

Spelling: [moon]

IPA: /mun/

Moon is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in Moon (mnoo).

Definitions for Moon

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.
9. Sun Myung [suhn myuhng] /sʌn myʌŋ/ (Show IPA), 1920–2012, Korean religious leader: founder of the Unification Church.

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 Moon

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 Moon

In June only the three days were available, because of tide and moon: the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh.

I haven't the least desire to sit alone and moon and meditate.

LADEE completed its mission in the spring with a crash landing on the moon.

I think he was glad when we set out for my own village in the moon of the Sap Running.

The bowman looked down at his feet and then up at the moon, "Parbleu!"

We see the same idea also in the rising and setting sun and moon.

There is an expanded place-name index with more than 150,000 entries, and separate undersea, moon, and Mars features.

In Wicca, the female goddess is represented by the moon, a symbol of Mother Earth and fertility.

He had discarded his hat, and lay back on his elbows, ostensibly to look at the moon.

What would it take to carry people to the moon, or Mars, or an asteroid?