Dictionary Definition
moon
Noun
1 the natural satellite of the Earth; "the
average distance to the moon is 384,400 kilometers"; "men first
stepped on the moon in 1969"
2 any object resembling a moon; "he made a moon
lamp that he used as a night light"; "the clock had a moon that
showed various phases"
4 the light of the moon; "moonlight is the
smuggler's enemy"; "the moon was bright enough to read by" [syn:
moonlight, moonshine]
5 United States religious leader (born in Korea)
who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of
conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920) [syn: Sun Myung
Moon]
6 any natural satellite of a planet; "Jupiter has
sixteen moons"
Verb
1 have dreamlike musings or fantasies while
awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming" [syn: daydream]
2 be idle in a listless or dreamy way [syn:
moon
around, moon on]
3 expose one's buttocks to; "moon the
audience"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Old English mōna < Proto-Germanic *mænon- < Proto-Indo-European *me(n)ses (moon, month) < PIE base *mē-² (to measure).Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːn
Proper noun
the moon- The Moon, the satellite of planet Earth.
Noun
- Any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet.
- In the context of "literary": A month, particularly a lunar month.
- Many moons ago...
Quotations
- 1957, Ed Heruhy, “NEW MOON Reds Launch First Space Satellite”,
International News, Universal
- Today a new moon is in the sky, a twenty-three-inch metal sphere placed in orbit by a Russian rocket.
Synonyms
- (natural satellite of a planet): satellite
- (month): calendar month, lunar month, month
Derived terms
- moonlight
- moonlit
- moonraker
- moonwalk
- new moon
- old moon
- once in a blue moon
- over the moon
- phase of the moon
- thumbnail moon
- waning moon
- waxing moon
Translations
the Moon, the satellite of planet Earth
- Arabic:
- Aramaic:
- Catalan: lluna
- Chinese: (yuèliàng)
- Crimean Tatar: ay
- Dutch: maan m|f
- Finnish: Kuu
- French: lune
- Galician: lúa
- Georgian: მთვარე (mt‘vare)
- German: Mond
- Greek: φεγγάρι (fe[ŋ]ɡári)
- Hebrew: ירח (yare'aĥ)
- Hungarian: hold
- Italian: luna
- Japanese: 月 (つき, tsuki)
- Khmer: (lōk kai), (bprēiəh jən)
- Korean: 달 (dal)
- Latin: lūna
- Macedonian: месечина (mesečina)
- Malay: bulan, purnama
- Ojibwe: dibik-giizis
- Persian: , (mâh)
- Polish: Księżyc
- Portuguese: lua
- Romanian: lună
- Russian: луна (luná)
- Spanish: luna
- Swedish: måne
- West Frisian: moanne
any substantially sized natural satellite of a
planet
- Aleut: tugidax
- Arabic: (qámar)
- Bosnian: mjesec
- Catalan: lluna
- Chinese: (yuèliàng)
- Croatian: mjesec
- Czech: měsíc
- Danish: måne
- Dutch: maan m|f (1,2)
- Estonian: kuu
- Finnish: kuu
- French: lune
- Georgian: თანამგზავრი (t‘anamgzavri)
- German: Mond , Trabant , Satellit
- Greek: φεγγάρι (fe[ŋ]ɡári) , δορυφόρος (ðorifóros)
- Hebrew: יָרֵחַ (yare'aĥ) , לווין (lawian)
- Hindi: चाँद (cām̐da), चन्द्रमा (candramā)
- Hungarian: hold
- Icelandic: tungl ; fylgihnöttur
- Italian: satellite , luna
- Japanese: 衛星 (えいせい, eiséi), 月 (つき, tsukí)
- Khmer: (lōk kai)
- Korean: 달 (dal)
- Kurdish:
- Latvian: pavadonis , satelīts , mēness
- Malayalam: ഉപഗ്രഹം (upagraham)
- Maltese: qamar
- Norwegian: måne
- Ojibwe: giizis
- Persian: (mâh)
- Polish: księżyc
- Portuguese: satélite , lua
- Romanian: lună
- Russian: спутник (spútnik) , луна (luná)
- Scottish Gaelic: gealach
- Serbian:
- Sindhi: (upugirahu)
- Slovak: mesiac
- Slovene: luna
- Spanish: satélite , luna
- Swahili: mwezi (nc 3/4)
- Swedish: måne
- Telugu: చందమామ (chaMdamaama)
- Turkish: uydu
- Welsh: lleuad, lloer
- West Frisian: moanne
month
- Aramaic:
- Bosnian: mjesec
- Catalan: lluna
- Chinese: 月 (yuè)
- Chinese Characters: 月
- Crimean Tatar: ay
- Croatian: mjesec
- Czech: měsíc
- Danish: måned
- Dutch: maan m|f (poetic), maand
- Estonian: kuu
- Ewe: dzinu , ɣleti
- Finnish: kuukausi, kuu
- French: lune (poetic), mois
- Georgian: თვე (tve)
- German: Monat , Mond (poetic)
- Greek: σεληνιακός μήνας (seliniakós mínas) , φεγγάρι (fe[ŋ]ɡári)
- Hebrew: חוֹדֶש (ĥodesh) , יֶרַח (yeraĥ)
- Hungarian: hónap
- Italian: mese , luna (poetic)
- Japanese: 月 (つき, tsukí)
- Khmer: (kai)
- Korean: 달 (dal), 월 (weol)
- Kurdish:
- Latvian: mēnesis
- Malayalam: ചന്ദ്രമാസം (chandra maasam)
- Maricopa:
- O'odham:
- Ojibwe: giizis
- Persian: , (mâh)
- Polish: miesiąc
- Portuguese: lua (poetic), mês
- Romanian: lună
- Russian: месяц (mésjats)
- Serbian:
- Slovak: mesiac
- Slovene: mesec
- Spanish: mes
- Swedish: månvarv
- Turkish: ay
- West Frisian: moanne, maand
Translations to be checked
- ttbc Basque: hilargi
- ttbc Breton: loar (1,3), loarenn , loarennoù p (2), loariad , loariadoù p (3)
- ttbc Chinese: 月 (yuè), 月亮 (yuèliàng), 月球 (yuèqiú), 太陰 (tàiyīn)
- ttbc Indonesian: bulan
Verb
Translations
to display one’s buttocks to
to fuss over adoringly
- Finnish: haikailla
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
April showers, Artemis, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Cynthia, Diana, Hecate, Hekate, Luna, Phoebe, Proteus, Selene, abundant year, academic
year, annum, artificial
satellite, be absent, bissextile year, bum around, calendar month,
calendar year, candle,
century, chameleon, cloud shapes,
common year, crescent,
crescent moon, day, daydream, decade, decennary, decennium, decrescent, decrescent moon,
defective year, demilune, divagate, do nothing, dream, electric light bulb,
fantasy, fire, fiscal year, flame, fortnight, full moon, gibbous
moon, glim, go
woolgathering, goof off, half-moon, hang around, harvest moon,
hour, idle, illuminant, illuminator, incandescent
body, increscent,
increscent moon, kaleidoscope, lamp, lantern, laze, lazy, leap year, lie around,
light, light bulb, light
source, loaf, loiter about,
loll around, lollop around, lounge, lounge around, luminant, luminary, lunar month, lunar
year, lunation,
luster, lustrum, man-hour, match, mercury, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, mooch around, moon around,
muse, new moon, orb of
night, pipe-dream, quarter, queen of heaven, queen
of night, quicksilver, quinquennium, regular year,
rolling stone, satellite, second, semester, session, shifting sands,
sidereal year, silvery moon, sit around, slouch, slouch around, solar
year, source of light, stand around, stargaze, stars, stray, sun, taper, term, the wandering Moon, the
weather, torch, trimester, twelvemonth, wander, waning crescent moon,
waning moon, water, waxing
crescent moon, waxing moon, weather vane, weathercock, week, weekday, wet moon, wheel of
fortune, whirligig,
year