moon

name

1. (alt-of, singular, singular-only, with-definite-article)Alternative letter-case form of Moon (“the Earth's only permanent natural satellite”).

   “Immediatly after the tribulacions off thoſe dayes / ſhall the ſun be derkeneth: and the mone ſhall not geve her light / and the ſtarrꝭ ſhall fall from heven / and the powers of hevẽ ſhall move”

   “"I suppose I may have leave to do that!" Yes, she could do that, he said, but there was no road to that place; it lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and she could never find her way there.”

2. The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.

   “I kind of have two Moons up there. I look at the Moon just like everybody else who's never been there. But every once in a while I do think of the second Moon, the one that I recall from up close and, yeah, it is kind of hard to believe that I was actually up there.”

3. A personification of the moon.

   “Women's rhythm of life, her monthly renewal with her patroness the Moon, is the most important thing in her existence.”

   “Moon, the companion of Night, waxes and wanes, and we call this time a month.”

   “Moon's Day.”

   “Sun come, Moon come, Seed time, dry time, fog and rain, Sowing, growing, reaping, resting, Sun come, Moon come, etc.”

4. The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
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noun

1. (broadly, informal)Any natural satellite of a planet.

   “The stargazer observed the moons of Jupiter for over a year.”

   “That's no moon, you idiot... it's a space station!”

   “The field’s practitioners believe that as they learn to read the universe using neutrinos, they could make new, unexpected discoveries — much as the lensmakers who first developed the telescope could not have imagined that Galileo would later use it to discover the moons of Jupiter.”

2. (literary)A month, particularly a lunar month.

   “They stayed with their aunt and uncle for many moons.”

   “For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field…”

   “They number their age by Moons or Winters, and say a Woman or a Man is so many Moons old, and so they do with all memorable Actions in life, accounting it to be so many Moons or Winters since such or such a thing happened.”

   “Many moons had waxed and waned when on the afternoon of a lovely summer day a lusty broad-boned knight was riding through the forest of Sherwood.”

   ““From whence came the yellow metal, Busuli?” he asked. The black pointed toward the southeast. “A moon’s march away—maybe more,” he replied.”

3. A representation of the moon, usually as a crescent or as a circle with a face; a crescent-shaped shape, symbol, or object.

   “The wizard costume was decorated with stars and moons.”

4. A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.

   “The moons surrounding the city walls were built in the sixteenth century.”

5. The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
6. The thirty-second Lenormand card.
7. In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.

verb

1. (colloquial, transitive)To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.

   “The hooligans mooned the riot police.”

   “It was ill-advised of Sam to moon the photographer during the shoot.”

2. (colloquial, intransitive)To gaze at lovingly or in adoration.

   “Bradly stood bewitched, mooning at the moon. Betimes he bent in a grotesque posture and looked at it between his legs, which was to rid his mind of preconceived colour values by seeing them upside down.”

3. (colloquial, intransitive)(usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.

   “Sarah mooned over Sam's photograph for months.”

   “You've been mooning after her forever; why not just ask her out?”

   “On some level, the filmmakers behind Monster Trucks must have recognized the ill fit of Till playing a teenager, because they cast Jane Levy, a 27-year-old who can pass for younger but not a decade younger, as Meredith, a nerdy classmate of Tripp’s who moons over him as she insists on making an appointment to tutor him in biology.”

4. To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.

   “We were only three on board. The poor old skipper mooned in the cabin.”

   “I mooned around. I was mighty sick of the room by then.”

5. (transitive)To expose to the rays of the Moon.
6. (transitive)To adorn with moons or crescents.
7. To rise in price rapidly or suddenly. (from to the moon)

   “It is impractical if a currency moons and plummets often.”

   “I've followed several of the most popular crypto pundits on Twitter and discovered they constantly brag about their one big Hail Mary pick that mooned but neglect to mention – or delete – their numerous fumbles.”

8. To shoot the moon.