[moon] 
| 1. | the earth's natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km). |
| 2. | this body during a particular lunar month, or during a certain period of time, or at a certain point of time, regarded as a distinct object or entity. Compare full moon, half-moon, new moon, waning moon, waxing moon. |
| 3. | a lunar month, or, in general, a month. |
| 4. | any planetary satellite: the moons of Jupiter. |
| 5. | something shaped like an orb or a crescent. |
| 6. | moonlight. |
| 7. | a platyfish. |
| 8. | Slang. the buttocks, esp. when bared. |
| 9. | to act or wander abstractedly or listlessly: You've been mooning about all day. |
| 10. | to sentimentalize or remember nostalgically: He spent the day mooning about his lost love. |
| 11. | to gaze dreamily or sentimentally at something or someone: They sat there mooning into each other's eyes. |
| 12. | Slang. to expose one's buttocks suddenly and publicly as a prank or gesture of disrespect. |
| 13. | to spend (time) idly: to moon the afternoon away. |
| 14. | to illuminate by or align against the moon. |
| 15. | Slang. to expose one's buttocks to as a prank or gesture of disrespect. |
| 16. | blue moon, a very long period of time: Such a chance comes once in a blue moon. |
nē moon, Skt māsa moon, month
[moon] | Sun Myung [suhn myuhng] , born 1920, Korean religious leader: founder of the Unification Church. |
| moon (mōōn) n.
v. intr.
Slang To expose one's buttocks to (others) as a prank or disrespectful gesture: "threatened to moon a passing . . . camera crew" (Vanity Fair). [Middle English moone, from Old English mōna; see mē-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
| Moon (mōōn) Korean-born American religious leader and founder of the Unification Church (1954). He was found guilty in 1982 of conspiracy to evade taxes in the United States. |
A natural satellite of a planet; an object that revolves around a planet. The planets vary in the number of their moons; for example, Mercury and Venus have none, the Earth has one, and Jupiter has seventeen or more. The planets' moons, like the planets themselves, shine by reflected light.
Note: The Earth's moon is about 240,000 miles away and is about 2,000 miles in diameter. The volume of the Earth is fifty times that of the moon; the mass of the Earth is about eighty times that of the moon. The moon has no atmosphere, and its gravity is about one-sixth that of the Earth.
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heb. yareah, from its paleness (Ezra 6:15), and lebanah, the "white" (Cant. 6:10; Isa. 24:23), was appointed by the Creator to be with the sun "for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years" (Gen. 1:14-16). A lunation was among the Jews the period of a month, and several of their festivals were held on the day of the new moon. It is frequently referred to along with the sun (Josh. 10:12; Ps. 72:5, 7, 17; 89:36, 37; Eccl. 12:2; Isa. 24:23, etc.), and also by itself (Ps. 8:3; 121:6). The great brilliance of the moon in Eastern countries led to its being early an object of idolatrous worship (Deut. 4:19; 17:3; Job 31:26), a form of idolatry against which the Jews were warned (Deut. 4:19; 17:3). They, however, fell into this idolatry, and offered incense (2 Kings 23:5; Jer. 8:2), and also cakes of honey, to the moon (Jer. 7:18; 44:17-19, 25).