- moon
- [[t]mu͟ːn[/t]]
♦♦♦moons, mooning, mooned1) N-SING: usu the N, also full/new N The moon is the object that you can often see in the sky at night. It goes round the Earth once every four weeks, and as it does so its appearance changes from a circle to part of a circle.→ See also new moon
...the first man on the moon...
There will be no moon.
...the light of a full moon.
2) N-COUNT: usu poss N A moon is an object similar to a small planet that travels around a planet....Neptune's large moon.
3) VERB: usu cont If you are mooning around, you are spending time doing nothing in particular, for example because you feel unhappy or lazy, or are worried about something.[V adv/prep] Lettie was mooning around all morning, doing nothing...
[V adv/prep] My working days were spent mooning round his department, trying to sneak a chance encounter.
Syn:4) VERB If you moon at someone, you turn your back to them and show them your bare bottom. [BRIT, INFORMAL]5) PHRASE: PHR with cl (emphasis) If you say that something happens once in a blue moon, you are emphasizing that it does not happen very often at all.Once in a blue moon you get some problems.
6) PHRASE: v-link PHR If you say that you are over the moon, you mean that you are very pleased about something. [BRIT, INFORMAL]Syn:
English dictionary. 2008.
