moon

UK /muːn/ US /mun/

name 9noun 5verb 5

Definitions

name

Alternative letter-case form of Moon (“the Earth's only permanent natural satellite”).

Immediatly after the tribulacions off thoſe dayes / ſhall the ſun be derkeneth: and the mone ſhall not geve her light / and the ſtarrꝭ ſhall fall from heven / and the powers of hevẽ ſhall move

"I suppose I may have leave to do that!" Yes, she could do that, he said, but there was no road to that place; it lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and she could never find her way there.

noun

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!

A month, particularly a lunar month.

They stayed with their aunt and uncle for many moons.

For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field…

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.

verb

To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.

The hooligans mooned the riot police.

It was ill-advised of Sam to moon the photographer during the shoot.

To gaze at lovingly or in adoration.

Bradly stood bewitched, mooning at the moon. Betimes he bent in a grotesque posture and looked at it between his legs, which was to rid his mind of preconceived colour values by seeing them upside down.

(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.

We were only three on board. The poor old skipper mooned in the cabin.

I mooned around. I was mighty sick of the room by then.

To expose to the rays of the Moon.

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

bright

The bright moon lit up the entire garden last night.

crescent, full, half, new

VERB + MOON

cover, hide

Dark clouds hid the moon as the storm moved across the night sky.

fly to, go to, land on

MOON + VERB

appear, come out, rise

shine

set

By the time we left the beach, the moon was setting behind the hills.

wane, wax

orbit sth

PREP

on the ~

Astronauts left footprints on the moon during the Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s.

under a/the ~

The couple walked quietly under the moon, holding hands the whole way home.

PHRASES

the light of the moon

The old lighthouse keeper could only see the path by the light of the moon.

the surface of the moon

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the light of the Moon

noun — the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)

lunation

verb — have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake

daydream

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

over the moon

Delighted, thrilled.

Winemakers are over the moon to be able to showcase the individual nuances within their vineyards.

blue moon

An extra full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year, namely:

once in a blue moon

Very rarely; very infrequently.

We are no advocates for the eternal system of producing foreign operas to the exclusion of the works of English composers, but once in a blue moon such a thing may be allowed.

ask for the moon

To claim or desire something that one cannot have.

Major publishers think they are taking enough risk by simply publishing gay material. To want them to publish challenging, original gay books is asking them for the moon when they

hang the moon

To place the moon in the sky: used as an example of a superlative act attributed to someone viewed with uncritical or excessive awe, reverence, or infatuation.

"Everybody in the 8th Wing thinks he hung the moon," says one of Olds's aviators. "We'd follow him anywhere."

Example Bank

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"I suppose I may have leave to do that!" Yes, she could do that, he said, but there was no road to that place; it lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and she could never find her way there.

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The stargazer observed the moons of Jupiter for over a year.

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That's no moon, you idiot... it's a space station!

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The field’s practitioners believe that as they learn to read the universe using neutrinos, they could make new, unexpected discoveries — much as the lensmakers who first developed the telescope could

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The hooligans mooned the riot police.

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, moon is marked as informal, literary, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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