harvest moon
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Extra light provides longer hours for the harvesting that occurs in the Northern Hemisphere at this time of year.
Noun
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harvest moon (plural harvest moons)
- The first full moon of autumn by a tropical year.
- 2003, Christopher Paolini, “Discovery”, in Eragon, page 6:
- A silvery cloud drifted over the mountains that surrounded him, its edges glowing with ruddy light cast from the harvest moon cradled between two peaks.
- The full moon nearest the autumn equinox, when the moon rises the latest and lowest in the sky and seems to appear the biggest, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere.
- 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
- Round and red as the harvest moon through the mist of the marshes
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
- Boxer would even come out at nights and work for an hour or two on his own by the light of the harvest moon.
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- wolf moon, hunger moon, old moon (January)
- snow moon, ice moon (February)
- worm moon, sap moon, sugaring moon, crow moon, storm moon (March)
- pink moon, egg moon, grass moon, rain moon, growing moon, wind moon (April)
- flower moon, planting moon, milk moon, hare moon (May)
- strawberry moon, rose moon, honey moon, mead moon (June)
- buck moon, thunder moon, deer moon, hay moon (July)
- sturgeon moon, corn moon, fruit moon, barley moon (August)
- harvest moon, gypsy moon (September)
- hunter's moon (October)
- beaver moon, frost moon, frosty moon, snow moon (November)
- cold moon, long night moon, winter moon (December)
Translations
[edit]first full moon of autumn
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full moon nearest the autumn equinox
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