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Moon.

The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.

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Meaning & usage

name/muːn/Received-Pronunciation/mun/General-American

  1. The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.

  2. A personification of the moon.

  3. The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

Where this word comes from

[Alt: Bright face of the Moon] From Middle English Mone, mone, from Old English mōna, from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), from *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of Máni.

name

  1. A surname.

  2. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Kentucky.

  3. A number of places in the United States: A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

  4. A number of places in the United States: A ghost town in Pennington County, South Dakota.

  5. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia.

  6. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in the town of Mosinee, Marathon County, Wisconsin.

Where this word comes from

* A variant of Mohan, from Irish. * A habitational name of Norman origin from Moyon in La Manche. Compare Mounce. * An Americanized form of German Mohn or a similar surname. * A variant of Mun, from Korean. * A variant Romanization of Chinese 文 (Wén), 萬 /万 (Wàn), and 滿 /满 (Mǎn). * Possibly from Cantonese 滿 /满 (mun⁵, “full; complete”).

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