moon

moon is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.
2. noun. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
3. noun. The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.
4. noun. A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
5. transitive verb. To expose to the rays of the moon.
6. intransitive verb. To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
7. noun. any natural satellite of a planet

   "Jupiter has sixteen moons"

8. noun. the natural satellite of the Earth

   "the average distance to the Moon is 384,400 kilometers"

   "men first stepped on the moon in 1969"

9. noun. any object resembling a moon

   "he made a moon lamp that he used as a night light"

   "the clock had a moon that showed various phases"

10. noun. 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)
11. noun. the light of the Moon

    "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"

    "the Moon was bright enough to read by"

    Synonyms: moonlight, moonshine

12. noun. the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)

    Synonyms: lunation

13. verb. expose one's buttocks to

    "moon the audience"

14. verb. be idle in a listless or dreamy way
15. verb. have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake

    "She looked out the window, daydreaming"

    Synonyms: daydream

Synonyms

moonlight, moonshine, lunation, daydream

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in moon:

mono

Common word forms

moons, moonal, mooned, mooner, mooning, moonless

Words from these letters

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