the moon
noun
variants
or the Moon
: the large round object that circles the Earth and that shines at night by reflecting light from the sun
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Article continues below Artemis 2 will send four astronauts — NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen — on a 10-day trip around the moon and back home again.
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Mike Wall, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2026
Some medical men believed menstruation was literally controlled by the moon.
—Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
That is one of a million stories as to like what mountains of the moon.
—Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2026
The Artemis program is aiming for the moon’s south pole, which is peppered with craters and rocks as large as 65 feet in diameter along with some areas with 20-degree slopes.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2026
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Mike Wall, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2026
Some medical men believed menstruation was literally controlled by the moon.
—Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
That is one of a million stories as to like what mountains of the moon.
—Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2026
The Artemis program is aiming for the moon’s south pole, which is peppered with craters and rocks as large as 65 feet in diameter along with some areas with 20-degree slopes.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for the moon
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“The moon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20moon. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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