crescentnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkres.ənt/us/ˈkres.ənt/(something with) a curved shape that has two narrow pointed ends, like the moon when it is less than half of a circle:
The moon was a brightly shining crescent.
a row of houses or a road built in a curve:
They live at 15 Park Crescent.
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Geometrical shapes
- -cornered
- -dimensional
- arch
- circular
- cuboid
- cylinder
- cylindrical
- dome
- hexagon
- incongruent
- isometric
- lozenge
- octagon
- ovoid
- parallelogram
- polygon
- quadrilateral
- rhombus
- spherical
- triangle
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crescent
adjective ukus
the crescent moon