moon
moon - English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /muːn/
- (General American) IPA: /mun/
Proper noun
moon
Noun
moon (plural moons)
- (colloquial, by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
- The stargazer observed the moons of Jupiter for over a year.
- That's no moon, you idiot... it's a space station!
- (literary) A month, particularly a lunar month.
- They stayed with their aunt and uncle for many moons.
- A representation of the moon, usually as a crescent or as a circle with a face; a crescent-shaped shape, symbol, or object.
- The wizard costume was decorated with stars and moons.
- A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
- The moons surrounding the city walls were built in the sixteenth century.
- The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-second Lenormand card.
- (card games) In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
Synonyms
- (Earth's sole natural satellite): Moon
- (natural satellite of a planet): satellite
- (month): calendar month, lunar month, month
- See also moon
Derived terms
- ask for the moon
- beaver moon
- blood moon
- blue moon
- bomber's moon
- buck moon
- cold moon
- corn moon
- corn planting moon
- crescent moon
- egg moon
- exomoon
- fingernail moon
- fish moon
- flower moon
- frost moon
- full moon
- Galilean moon
- gibbous moon
- grain moon
- half-moon
- half moon
- hang the moon
- hare moon
- harvest moon
- honey moon
- honeymoon
- honey moon
- howl at the moon
- hunter's moon
- know someone from the man in the moon
- know someone from the man on the moon
- man in the moon
- man on the moon
- many moons ago
- mead moon
- midsummer moon
- milk moon
- mini-moon
- minimoon, mini-moon
- moon-blind, moonblind, moon blind
- moon-cake
- moon-calf
- moon-eyed
- moon-face
- moon-faced
- moon-knife
- moon-man
- moon-pool
- moon-sickle
- moon bag
- moonball
- moonbat
- moon bear
- moon blindness
- moon block
- moon boot
- moon bounce, moonbounce
- moonbow
- mooncake, moon cake
- mooncalf
- moonchild, moon-child, moon child
- moon cricket
- mooncusser
- moon daisy
- moon dog
- moonet
- moonette
- mooney
- mooneye, moon-eye, moon eye
- moon face
- moon facies
- moonfall
- moonfish
- moonflower
- moonful
- moongazing
- moonglade
- moon guitar
- moonhood
- moonie
- moon illusion
- mooning
- moonish
- moonito
- moon jelly
- moon landing
- moon language
- moonless, moon-less
- moonlet
- moon letter
- moonlight, moon-light
- moonlit, moon-lit
- moonly
- moon madness
- moon milk
- moonmoon, moon-moon, moon moon
- moon moth
- moon on a stick
- moon pie
- moon pigeon
- moon pool, moonpool
- moonquake, moon-quake
- moonraker
- moonrat
- moon rat
- moonrise, moon-rise, moon rise
- moon rock
- moon rocket
- moon roof
- moonroof
- moon rune
- moonrunes
- moonsail
- moonsault
- moonscape
- moonset, moon-set, moon set
- moonshine, moon-shine
- moon shot, moon-shot, moonshot
- moonsickle
- moon sickle
- moon snail
- moon soup
- moonspeak, moon-speak
- moonstone
- moonstruck
- moon tower
- moon trefoil
- moon unit
- moonwake
- moonwalk
- moonward
- moonwort
- moony
- moon zither
- new moon
- old moon
- once in a blue moon
- once in a purple moon
- over the moon
- phase of the moon
- pink moon
- promise the moon
- quarter moon
- quarternary moon
- quasi-moon
- quasimoon, quasi-moon
- rising of the moon
- rose moon
- secondary moon
- see the dark side of the moon
- shepherd moon
- shoot the moon
- sickle moon
- smuggler's moon
- snow moon
- strawberry moon
- sturgeon moon
- sub-moon
- submoon, sub-moon
- super moon
- supermoon, super-moon
- tertiary moon
- the moon on a stick
- thumbnail moon
- thunder moon
- to the moon
- to the moon and back
- Trojan moon
- waning moon
- waxing moon
- wolf moon
- worm moon
- young moon
Descendants
Translations
Verb
moon (third-person singular simple present moons, present participle mooning, simple past and past participle mooned)
- (transitive, colloquial) To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To gaze at lovingly or in adoration.
- (intransitive, 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.
- (transitive) To expose to the rays of the Moon.
- (transitive) To adorn with moons or crescents.
- (cryptocurrencies, of a coin or token) To rise in price rapidly or suddenly.
- It is impractical if a currency moons and plummets often.
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
Translations
Related terms
- month
- moonsick
Anagrams
moon - Bavarian
Alternative forms
Noun
moon
moon - Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈmoːn/, [ˈmo̞ːn]
- Syllabification: moon
Contraction
moon
Anagrams
moon - Manx
Pronunciation
- IPA: /muːn/
Alternative forms
- mooin, mooyn
Noun
moon m (genitive singular mooin, no plural)
- verbal noun of moon
- urine
Synonyms
- feayl
Derived terms
- mooynlagh m (“sewage”)
Verb
moon (past voon, future independent moonee, verbal noun moon or mooney, past participle moonit)
Mutation
Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
moon | voon | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
moon - North Frisian
Noun
moon m
- (Mooring) man
moon - Teop
Noun
moon