Moon

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//muːn//
United States//mun//

The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.

proper noun

1
The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.
I kind of have two Moons up there. I look at the Moon just like everybody else who's never been there. But every once in a while I do think of the second Moon, the one that I recall from up close and, yeah, it is kind of hard to believe that I was actually up there.
2
A personification of the moon.
Women's rhythm of life, her monthly renewal with her patroness the Moon, is the most important thing in her existence.
Moon, the companion of Night, waxes and wanes, and we call this time a month.
Moon's Day.
Sun come, Moon come, Seed time, dry time, fog and rain, Sowing, growing, reaping, resting, Sun come, Moon come, etc.
3
The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

Etymology

[Alt: Bright face of the Moon] From Middle English Mone, mone, from Old English mōna, from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), from *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of Máni.

proper noun

1
A surname.
2
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Kentucky.
3
A number of places in the United States: A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
4
A number of places in the United States: A ghost town in Pennington County, South Dakota.
5
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia.
6
A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in the town of Mosinee, Marathon County, Wisconsin.

Etymology

* A variant of Mohan, from Irish. * A habitational name of Norman origin from Moyon in La Manche. Compare Mounce. * An Americanized form of German Mohn or a similar surname. * A variant of Mun, from Korean. * A variant Romanization of Chinese 文 (Wén), 萬 /万 (Wàn), and 滿 /满 (Mǎn). * Possibly from Cantonese 滿 /满 (mun⁵, “full; complete”).

Forms

plural: Moons

Moody · A surname.mooing · The action of the verb moo; a mooing sound.moon · Any natural satellite of a planet.

Moon · The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.

Mooney · A surname from Irish.moonlight · The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate…moonshine · The light of the moon.

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