moon

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[edit] English

The Moon (quarter Moon)
The Moon (full)

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English mone, from Old English mōna (“moon”), from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), from *mē-² (“to measure”). Cognate with Scots mone, mune (“moone”), North Frisian muun (“moon”), West Frisian moanne (“moon”), Dutch maan (“moon”), German Mond (“moon”), Swedish måne (“moon”), Icelandic máni (“moon”), Latin mēnsis (“month”).

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moon (plural moons)

  1. Largest satellite of Earth.
  2. Any natural satellite of a planet.
  3. (literary) A month, particularly a lunar month.
    • 1737, John Brickell, The natural history of North-Carolina, page 308-309:
      The 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. Note: in earlier modern English, many nouns were capitalized, similar to present day German.
    • 1822, Thomas Love Peacock, Maid Marian, page 238:
      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.

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largest natural satellite of planet Earth
any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet
month
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[edit] Verb

moon (third-person singular simple present moons, present participle mooning, simple past and past participle mooned)

  1. (transitive, pejorative, colloquial) To display one’s buttocks to, typically in jest, pejoratively, or in protest
  2. (intransitive, colloquial, dated) (usually followed by over or about) To fuss over adoringly or with great affection
    Sarah mooned over Sam’s photograph for months.

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to display one’s buttocks to
to fuss over adoringly

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