moon
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
moon/muːn/
▶noun
- 1 (also Moon) the natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun.
■ a natural satellite of any planet.
- 2 literary or humorous a month: many moons ago.
- 1 behave or move in a listless or dreamy manner.
- 2 informal expose one's buttocks to someone as an insult or in fun.
– phrases
over the moon informal delighted.
over the moon informal delighted.
– derivatives
moonless adjective,
moonlet noun,
moonlike adjective.
moonless adjective,
moonlet noun,
moonlike adjective.
'moon' also found in these Oxford entries:
annular eclipse
- anomalistic month
- apogee
- apolune
- aureole
- Baily's beads
- blue
- celestial navigation
- change
- circumlunar
- cislunar
- corona
- crescent
- cry
- cusp
- decrescent
- demilune
- Diana monkey
- earthshine
- Easter
- ecliptic
- evection
- full
- full moon
- gibbous
- half-moon
- halo
- hard landing
- harvest moon
- honeymoon
- horn
- hunter's moon
- idiom
- ingress
- lander
- libration
- limb
- luminary
- luna moth
- lunar
- lunar day
- lunar distance
- lunar eclipse
- lunar node
- lunate
- lunatic
- lunation
- lune
- lunette
- lunisolar
