moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːn/
ipa: /mun/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: moons
Etymology: From Middle English mone, from Old English mōna (“moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), probably from *meh₁- (“to measure”).
cognates and doublets
Cognate with Scots mone, mune, muin (“moon”), North Frisian muun (“moon”), Saterland Frisian Moune (“moon”), West Frisian moanne (“moon”), Dutch maan (“moon”), German Mond (“moon”), Danish måne (“moon”), Norwegian Bokmål måne (“moon”), Norwegian Nynorsk måne (“moon”), Swedish måne (“moon”), Faroese máni (“moon”), Icelandic máni (“moon”), Latin mēnsis (“month”). See also month, a related term within Indo-European.
The usage of "moon" to refer to the act reflected its use as a metaphor for the buttocks since 1743. It was popularised from American student slang in the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: The stargazer observed the moons of Jupiter for over a year.
text: That's no moon, you idiot... it's a space station!
text: 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 not have imagined that Galileo would later use it to discover the moons of Jupiter.
ref: 2021 March 30, Anton Troianovski, “Hunting Ghost Particles Beneath the World’s Deepest Lake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2021:
glosses: Any natural satellite of a planet.
raw_tags: of Moon
examples: text: They stayed with their aunt and uncle for many moons.
text: 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…
ref: 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello:
text: They number their age by Moons or Winters, and say a Woman or a Man is so many Moons old, and so they do with all memorable Actions in life, accounting it to be so many Moons or Winters since such or such a thing happened.
ref: 1737, John Brickell, The natural history of North-Carolina, pages 308–309:
text: Many moons had waxed and waned when on the afternoon of a lovely summer day a lusty broad-boned knight was riding through the forest of Sherwood.
ref: 1822, Thomas Love Peacock, Maid Marian, page 238:
text: “From whence came the yellow metal, Busuli?” he asked. The black pointed toward the southeast. “A moon’s march away—maybe more,” he replied.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 128:
text: 2002, Russell Allen, "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.
Through eerie reach of ancient woods / Where lumbering mists arise / I journey for nines moons of the year / To where a land of legend lies
glosses: A month, particularly a lunar month.
examples: text: The wizard costume was decorated with stars and moons.
glosses: A representation of the moon, usually as a crescent or as a circle with a face; a crescent-shaped shape, symbol, or object.
examples: text: The moons surrounding the city walls were built in the sixteenth century.
glosses: A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
glosses: The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The thirty-second Lenormand card.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
Synonyms: sense: Earth's sole natural satellite
word: Moon
sense: natural satellite of a planet
word: satellite
sense: month
word: calendar month
sense: month
word: lunar month
sense: month
word: month
word: ☽
word: ☾
word: moon
Hypernyms: word: celestial body
Hyponyms: word: Galilean moon
word: sickle moon
Derived terms: antimoon
ask for the moon
barley moon
beaver moon
black moon
blood moon
blue moon
bomber's moon
buck moon
cold moon
corn moon
corn planting moon
crescent moon
crow moon
dark moon
deer moon
egg moon
exomoon
fingernail moon
finger pointing at the moon
fish moon
flower moon
frost moon
frosty moon
fruit moon
full moon
Galilean moon
gibbous moon
go howl at the moon
grain moon
grass moon
growing moon
gypsy moon
half-moon
half moon
hang the moon
hare moon
harvest moon
hay moon
honeymoon
honey moon
howl at the moon
hunger moon
hunter's moon
ice moon
know someone from the man in the moon
know someone from the man on the moon
long night moon
man in the moon
man on the moon
many moons ago
mead moon
micromoon
midsummer moon
milk moon
mini-moon
minimoon
mock moon
moon bag
moonball
moon base
moonbat
moonbath
moonbathe
moon-beam
moon beam
moonbeam
moon bear
moonbear
moon-bill
moonbird
moon-blind
moonblind
moon blind
moon blindness
moonblink
moon block
moonblood
moon boot
moon bounce
moonbounce
moonbow
moon buggy
moonburn
moon-cake
mooncake
moon cake
mooncalf
moon-calf
moon carrot
moonchild
moon-child
moon child
moonclad
mooncraft
mooncrete
moon cricket
mooncup
mooncusser
moon daisy
moondial
moon dog
moondown
moondrome
moondust
mooner
moonery
moonet
moonette
mooney
moon-eyed
mooneye
moon-eye
moon eye
moon face
moon-face
moon-faced
moon facies
moonfall
moonfish
moon-flask
moon flask
moonflask
moonflight
moonflower
moonful
moon garden
moon gate
moongate
moongazer
moongazing
moonglade
moonglow
moon god
moon guitar
moonhood
moonie
moon illusion
mooning
moonish
moonito
moon jelly
moon jump
moon-knife
moon landing
moon language
moonless
moon-less
moonlet
moon letter
moonlight
moon-light
moonlike
moon-lily
moonling
moonlit
moon-lit
moonlitten
moon logic
moonly
moon madness
moonman
moon-man
moon milk
moonmilk
moon month
moonmoon
moon-moon
moon moon
moon moth
moonnaut
moon on a stick
moonpath
moonphase
moon pie
moon pigeon
moon-pool
moon pool
moonpool
moonport
moonquake
moon-quake
moonraker
moonraking
moonrat
moon rat
moonrise
moon-rise
moon rise
moon rock
moon rocket
moon rocks
moon roof
moonroof
moon rune
moonrunes
moonsail
moonsault
moonscape
moonscreen
moonseed
moonset
moon-set
moon set
moonshine
moon-shine
moonship
moon shot
moon-shot
moonshot
moon sickle
moonsickle
moon-sickle
moon snail
moon snake
moon soup
moonspeak
moon-speak
moonstomp
moonstone
moonstricken
moonstruck
moontime
moon tower
moon trefoil
moon unit
moonup
moonwake
moonwalk
moonward
moonwashed
moonwatcher
moonwise
moonwort
moony
moon zither
Mountains of the Moon
new moon
old moon
once in a blue moon
once in a purple moon
over the moon
phase of the moon
pink moon
planting moon
ploonet
promise the moon
quarter moon
quasimoon
quasi-moon
quaternary moon
rain moon
reach for the moon
rising of the moon
rose moon
sap moon
the dark side of the moon
shepherd moon
shoot for the moon
shoot the moon
sickle moon
sliver moon
smuggler's moon
snow moon
storm moon
strawberry moon
sturgeon moon
sub-moon
submoon
sugaring moon
super moon
supermoon
super-moon
the moon on a stick
think one hung the moon
thumbnail moon
thunder moon
to the moon
to the moon and back
Trojan moon
waning moon
waxing moon
wind moon
winter moon
wolf moon
worm moon
young moon
Related terms: word: new moon
word: waxing moon
word: waning moon
word: full moon
word: old moon
word: gibbous moon
word: first quarter
word: last quarter
word: crescent
word: parish lantern