full moon

noun

: the moon with its whole apparent disk illuminated

Examples of full moon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web At two-thirty the next morning, Donnelly set out again for Manly alone, to kayak under a full moon—one of his last voyages, because a week and a half later forty-mile-an-hour winds blew the lake two miles north. Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024 This year, unfortunately, the Lyrids’ peak will align with a nearly full moon. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024 Pizza Hut’s Total Eclipse of the Hut Families can celebrate the solar eclipse by eating pizza—it's shaped like a full moon after all. Anna Halkidis, Parents, 5 Apr. 2024 Pink moon The pink moon, otherwise known as the first full moon of the spring, will rise April 23. Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024 The first full moon after the spring equinox was the Worm Moon on March 25 according to the moon phases. Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024 And while Baltimore’s harbor experiences fairly small changes even during springtime full moon tides, the tidal movements of water could have been a factor in the bridge impact. Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024 There’d be an eclipse of the moon at every full moon. Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024 Lunar eclipses occur at the full moon phase and are only visible from half of Earth. Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 1 Apr. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of full moon was before the 12th century

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“Full moon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/full%20moon. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

Kids Definition

full moon

noun
: the moon with its whole disk lighted
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