Synonyms for crescent
ˈkrɛs əntcres·cent

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1. crescentadjective

   any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters

   Antonyms:
   angular, angulate

2. crescent(a), crescent-shaped, semilunar, lunateadjective

   resembling the new moon in shape

   Antonyms:
   angular, angulate

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. crescentnoun

   Synonyms:
   new moon, moon in her first quarter

2. crescentnoun

   Synonyms:
   figure of the new moon

3. crescentnoun

   Synonyms:
   turkish standard

4. crescentnoun

   Synonyms:
   turkish power, ottoman Empire

5. crescentadjective

   Synonyms:
   growing, enlarging, increasing

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1. List of paraphrases for "crescent":

   al-hilal, al-helal, helal, hilal, growing, increasing

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. crescent

   Synonyms:
   Quarter moon

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1. Elizabeth Hoff:

   We need to go in with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent for a door-to-door basement, if there are these cases we need to verify and make sure they get urgent treatment, i sent an immediate request to authorities for more supplies to be brought in. We are asking for mobile clinics and medical teams to be dispatched.

2. Ko Nakata:

   The Red Crescent Society is operating under the Islamic State's control. Why don't we seek Turkey's mediation and give the money for the people affected by the conflicts in Iraq and Syria? I believe this could be a rational, acceptable option.

3. Ras Lanuf:

   The oil crescent is, thanks to God, under full control.

4. Sarem Rezaie:

   The cargo will be delivered to the WFP (World Food Programme), which will give it to the Yemeni Red Crescent to distribute it among innocent Yemeni people.

5. William Faulkner:

   No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.