MOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Moon mean? 

• MOON (noun)
  The noun MOON has 6 senses:

1. the natural satellite of the Earth

2. any object resembling a moon

3. the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)

4. the light of the Moon

5. United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920)

6. any natural satellite of a planet

  Familiarity information: MOON used as a noun is common.

• MOON (verb)
  The verb MOON has 3 senses:

1. have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake

2. be idle in a listless or dreamy way

3. expose one's buttocks to

  Familiarity information: MOON used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The natural satellite of the Earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

men first stepped on the moon in 1969

Instance hypernyms:

satellite (any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any object resembling a moon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

the clock had a moon that showed various phases

Hypernyms ("moon" is a kind of...):

object; physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow)

Derivation:

moon (expose one's buttocks to)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The period between successive new moons (29.531 days)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

lunar month; lunation; moon; synodic month

Hypernyms ("moon" is a kind of...):

month (a time unit of approximately 30 days)

Holonyms ("moon" is a part of...):

lunar year (a period of 12 lunar months)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The light of the Moon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

Moon; moonlight; moonshine

Context example:

the Moon was bright enough to read by

Hypernyms ("Moon" is a kind of...):

light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)

Meronyms (parts of "Moon"):

moon-ray; moon ray; moonbeam (a ray of moonlight)

Derivation:

moony (lighted by moonlight)

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Moon; Sun Myung Moon

Instance hypernyms:

religious leader (leader of a religious order)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Any natural satellite of a planet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

Jupiter has sixteen moons

Hypernyms ("moon" is a kind of...):

satellite (any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star)

Instance hyponyms:

Triton (the largest moon of Neptune)

• MOON (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they moon    ... he / she / it moons   
Past simple: mooned   
Past participle: mooned   
-ing form: mooning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

daydream; moon

Context example:

She looked out the window, daydreaming

Hypernyms (to "moon" is one way to...):

idle; laze; slug; stagnate (be idle; exist in a changeless situation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue moon over the results of the experiment

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be idle in a listless or dreamy way

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

moon; moon around; moon on

Hypernyms (to "moon" is one way to...):

idle; laze; slug; stagnate (be idle; exist in a changeless situation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Expose one's buttocks to

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

moon the audience

Hypernyms (to "moon" is one way to...):

display; exhibit; expose (to show, make visible or apparent)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

moon (any object resembling a moon)

 Context examples 

When they had retired to rest, if there was any moon or the night was star-light, I went into the woods and collected my own food and fuel for the cottage.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It must have been a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was breaking when I came to myself.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He proceeded:—All day I waited to hear from him, but he did not send me anything, not even a blow-fly, and when the moon got up I was pretty angry with him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Not so on Saturn’s strange and largest moon Titan, according to a new study.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

Given at our palace at Belfaborac, the twelfth day of the ninety-first moon of our reign.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It corresponds to the unit of time of approximately to one cycle of the moon's phases, about 30 days or 4 weeks.

(Month, NCI Thesaurus)

He pointed his nose at the moon.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A belt of fog had lifted almost simultaneously with the appearance of the moon.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Rain was falling heavily by that time, and it was a wild night; but there was a moon behind the clouds, and it was not dark.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That new moon may have rattled you because the news came out of the blue.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)