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, 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, stargaze, moon around, moon on, woolgather

8. moon, moon around, moon onverb

   be idle in a listless or dreamy way

   Synonyms:
   daydream, mope, 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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   • Object
   • 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. Barack Obama:

   No one is happier—no one is prouder—to put this birth certificate matter to rest than The Donald, and that’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter: Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?

2. Arthur O'Shaunessey:

   We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.

3. Gioia Massa:

   So, I think -- you know -- we're trying to collect these data because we need to figure out long-term you know when we send astronauts to the moon and to Mars, what kind of plant growth systems will be needed, so, we were able to add these two crops to our success stories of crops that can be grown well in space, and they collected a lot more data on that.

4. Ben Sharkey:

   This spring, we got much needed follow-up observations and went,' Wow it is real,' it's easier to explain with the moon than other ideas.

5. Oscar Wilde:

   Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.