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Word entry · 4 letters

moon

Best crossword clue

"Body orbiting Earth"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /muːn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted mnooStarts with MEnds with N18 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. expose one's buttocks to

Word origin

From Middle English mon, mona, mone, monæ, moone, moyn, moyne, from Old English mōna (“moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon; month”), probably from *meh₁- (“to measure”).

Used in a sentence

  • “Immediatly after the tribulacions off thoſe dayes / ſhall the ſun be derkeneth: and the mone ſhall not geve her light / and the ſtarrꝭ ſhall fall from heven / and the powers of hevẽ ſhall move”
  • “"I suppose I may have leave to do that!" Yes, she could do that, he said, but there was no road to that place; it lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and she could never find her way there.”
  • “The stargazer observed the moons of Jupiter for over a year.”

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Used as a crossword answer18 curated clues

01“Body orbiting Earth”4 letters
02“Body with phases”4 letters
03“Crescent in the sky”4 letters
04“Earth's natural satellite”4 letters
05“Earth's night companion”4 letters
06“Earth's orbiting neighbor”4 letters
07“Natural night light”4 letters
08“Natural satellite”4 letters
09“Night object with phases”4 letters
10“Night orb”4 letters
11“Night sky body”4 letters
12“Night sky orb”4 letters
13“Night sky satellite”4 letters
14“Nighttime crescent”4 letters
15“Nighttime orb”4 letters
16“Nighttime satellite”4 letters
17“Orbiting body”4 letters
18“Earth's satellite”4 letters

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