moon

About 24.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. proper noun Alternative letter-case form of Moon (“the Earth's only permanent natural satellite”).
2. noun Any natural satellite of a planet.

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

3. noun The light received from the Moon; moonlight.
4. noun A month, particularly a lunar month.

   They stayed with their aunt and uncle for many moons.

5. noun 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.

6. noun A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.

   The moons surrounding the city walls were built in the sixteenth century.

7. noun The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
8. noun The thirty-second Lenormand card.

Similar words

lunar month moonlight synodic month lunation daydream moonshine moon around moon on satellite lunar

Often followed by

and is was in of to had on or

Word family

Moon Moons mooned mooning moonlike moons