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moon the earth's natural satellite that shines by the sun's reflected light, revolves about the earth from west to east in about 2912 days with reference to the sun or about 2713 days with reference to the stars, and has a diameter of 2160 miles 3475 kilometers, a mean distance from the earth of about 238,900 miles 384,400 kilometers, and a mass about one eightieth that of the earth usually used with the The first known use: before the 12th century |
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moon |
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onset, rime |
m oon |
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Morpheme |
moon |
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Sentence Examples The telescope makes the craters on the surface of the moon incredibly clear. Europa and Io are both moons of Jupiter. One of the boys mooned the crowd. One of the boys mooned at the crowd. |
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Related Words Sound the same but are spelled differently.
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Collocations The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.
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Neighborhood
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Deeper Dive Learn more about moon . |
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