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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 N12 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.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer12 curated clues

01Body orbiting Earth4 letters
02Body with phases4 letters
03Crescent in the sky4 letters
04Earth's natural satellite4 letters
05Earth's night companion4 letters
06Earth's orbiting neighbor4 letters
07Natural night light4 letters
08Natural satellite4 letters

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