moonnoun
uk/muːn/us/muːn/the moon [ S ]
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- Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the surface of the moon.
- The moon cast a white light into the room.
- With a good telescope, you can see craters on the moon.
- The moon goes around the earth.
- The moon that night was a brightly shining crescent.
A2 the round object that moves in the sky around the earth and can be seen at night:
What time does the moon rise/set (= appear/disappear in the sky)?
[ S or U ] the shape made by the amount of the moon that you can see at a particular time:
There's no moon (= you cannot see the moon) tonight.
a crescent/full/new moon
[ C ] a similar round object that moves around another planet:
Jupiter has at least 16 moons.
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Astronomy
- asteroid
- astral
- astro-
- astrolabe
- astronomer
- geostationary orbit
- gibbous
- heavenly body
- interplanetary
- interstellar
- Pleiades
- plough
- Pluto
- Polaris
- pulsar
- Uranus
- Venus
- vernal equinox
- wane
- white dwarf
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Idiom(s)
be over the moon
many moons ago
moonverb [ I or T ]
uk/muːn/us/muːn/informalto show your naked bottom in public, as a joke or as a protest :
Two male juveniles were arrested and charged with indecent exposure after they mooned a police officer.
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Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- amusing
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- jocular
- jokester
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- tickle
- witty
- wordplay
- you've got to laugh idiom
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Phrasal verb(s)
moon around
moon over sb/sth