moon
- noun
- /muːn/
- Ardith, her face a round white moon, said, "I think we'd better pray."
- crescent moon
- half moon
- moon-shaped object
It's like an actual kind of moon shape up in there and I really like that.
- It's like an actual kind of moon shape up in there and I really like that.
- Musky charms, blue checks, gold checks, yellow moons and purple Nazis.
Examples
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We arranged them on plates in overlapping half-moons and covered them in plastic wrap.
Fiction book (1990) -
Her necklace featured a small charm shaped like a moon.
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These look much more like the moon boots I was hoping for.
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We need a little Crescent moon on the face.
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The faces of the two women hung like full moons over her bed.
Fiction book (1992) -
The toy set includes a globe with a moon that lights up in the dark.
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The artists designed a unique lamp that resembled a moon hanging in the night sky.
Idioms
- Informal
Tell someone you will do something very big although you cannot do it
Compounds
A full moon that comes soon after the start of autumn and gives extra light for farmers
- Literature
A shape people imagine on the moon's surface that looks like a face
The moon looks red during a total eclipse when it passes into Earth's shadow because Earth's air filters sunlight
- Specialized
A small tree grown for its pretty, deeply cut leaves that turn bright red in autumn
- Specialized
A smooth rounded sea snail shell with a small top often found on sandy beaches
- UK
A small evergreen bush with soft hairy leaves, yellow summer flowers, and snail-shaped seed pods
- Archaic
Poor sight at night in people and animals often caused by lack of vitamin A
- UK
A plant with tall stems, thin leaves, and clusters of small white or pink flowers
- NSFW
A person who secretly brings goods into or out of a country to avoid paying taxes
- UK
A person who brings goods into or out of a country secretly to avoid paying taxes
- Archaic
A curved part of a fort wall shaped like a half moon for defenders to fire on attackers
A time when the Moon looks like a thin crescent at the start of a new moon cycle
How Moonlike
Surface Forms
Etymology
Moon for an object that looks like the moon comes from the real moon, because people call anything round and pale a 'moon' as it looks like the bright circle in the sky.