Synonyms for MOON
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1. moonnoun

   Synonyms:
   LunaEnglish

2. Moonnoun

   To display one’s buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest

   Synonyms:
   natural satellite, calendar month, month, lunar month, satellite, LunaEnglish

3. moonnoun

   Any natural satellite of a planet.

   Synonyms:
   LunaEnglish, month, natural satellite, satellite, calendar month, lunar month

4. moonnoun

   A month, particularly a lunar month.

   Synonyms:
   natural satellite, calendar month, month, lunar month, satellite

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. Moon, moonnoun

   the natural satellite of the Earth

   "the average distance to the Moon is 384,400 kilometers"; "men first stepped on the moon in 1969"

   Synonyms:
   moonshine, lunar month, synodic month, moonlight, lunation

2. moonnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   moonshine, lunar month, synodic month, moonlight, lunation

3. lunar month, moon, lunation, synodic monthnoun

   the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)

   Synonyms:
   moonshine, lunar month, synodic month, moon, moonlight, lunation

4. moonlight, moonshine, Moonnoun

   the light of the Moon

   "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"; "the Moon was bright enough to read by"

   Synonyms:
   moonshine, lunar month, synodic month, corn liquor, lunation, moonlight, bootleg

5. Moon, Sun Myung Moonnoun

   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)

   Synonyms:
   moonshine, lunar month, synodic month, moonlight, lunation

6. moonverb

   any natural satellite of a planet

   "Jupiter has sixteen moons"

   Synonyms:
   moonshine, lunar month, synodic month, moonlight, lunation

7. daydream, moonverb

   have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake

   "She looked out the window, daydreaming"

   Synonyms:
   daydream, dream, moon, stargaze, moon around, moon on, woolgather

8. moon, moon around, moon onverb

   be idle in a listless or dreamy way

   Synonyms:
   daydream, mope, moon, moon around, moon on, moon about

9. moonverb

   expose one's buttocks to

   "moon the audience"

   Synonyms:
   daydream, moon around, moon on

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1. • Expose
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   • Religious Leader
   • Satellite

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. natural satellite

   the moon is named as it is because that is another way of saying natural satellite and the when the natural satellite for the earth was discovered we decided to name it moon.

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. moonnoun

   Synonyms:
   satellite, secondary planet

2. moonnoun

   Synonyms:
   blockhead, simpleton, fool, dunce

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. moonnoun

   Synonyms:
   satellite, luna, cynthia

   Associated words:
   selenology, selenography, apogee, wax, wane, epigee, selenocentric, selenograph, halo, orb, lunar, lunarian, interlunary, lunation, appulse, crescent, luniform

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.5 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "moon":

   lune, lunar, luna, moonlight, comoros, glass, moun, window, lunaire, comoro, satellite, moons, qamar, tyebjee

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1. David Burbach:

   The US is making The US return to the Moon program -- Artemis -- very international, with China Manned Space Agency, Canada, and Japan all contributing major components, and involving new partners too like the UAE, the overall theme is one of the The US strengthening relations with its friends, not using space to try to build a bridge to rivals.

2. Franceso Sauro:

   It is for sure a big challenge, but it is now clear for all space agencies that while we have already a good knowledge of the surface of the Moon, one of the main steps forward for space exploration would be to demonstrate the capability of exploring the subsurface of a planetary body.

3. Michael Bennet:

   And now we're here with the government shut down over his broken promise while the Chinese are landing spacecraft on the dark side of the moon. That's what they're doing.

4. Katy Martin:

   All of our winners are responsible for incrementally pushing the envelope in terms of what type of biotechnology we have available to us to use in space in the moment, the vision we work toward is making smaller, more portable, more flexible, lower maintenance laboratory equipment that can be taken to the moon and Mars.

5. David Bennett:

   The market for vivid blue diamonds of this level, it's so rare. Each stone is individual, in a sense, the GIA (Gemological Institute of America) graded 400 blue diamonds and only four of the 400 were graded (fancy) vivid blue. So even amongst this extremely rare class of blue diamonds, to get one vivid blue, 12 carats, internally flawless, is once in a blue moon.