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- pronunciation:
- mun
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| definition 1: |
When we talk about "the moon," we mean the round, natural object in space that circles around our Earth. The moon takes about 28 days to go around our planet. The moon sometimes looks very bright in the sky, but the moon doesn't have its own light. It reflects the light that comes toward it from the sun.
Nathan's bedroom window has a nice view of the moon at night.
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| definition 2: |
A moon is any very large, natural object that goes around a planet in a circle. Our Earth has only one moon, but some planets have many moons.
Jupiter has many moons.
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| derivations: |
moonless (adj.), moonlike (adj.) |
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