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moonlet

[ moon-lit ]

noun

  1. a small natural or artificial satellite, as one of a number of natural satellites thought to be embedded in the ring system of Saturn.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of moonlet1

First recorded in 1825–35; moon + -let

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Example Sentences

He was circling the black moonlet, at perhaps a thousand yards from its pitted surface.

He had just glimpsed the jagged moonlet rushing obliquely toward them from the left, bulking suddenly big and monstrous.

The Arrow, the Hound and the Lady circled the moonlet, swinging inward to the attack.

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