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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The exact timing of Eid al-Fitr depends on the sighting of the moon, as the Muslim calendar follows a lunar calendar.
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Dallas Morning News, 18 Mar. 2026
For a landing targeted at the end of 2026 following a ride to orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Intuitive Machines six-legged lunar lander is aiming to touch down amid a strange geographical anomaly on the moon known as a lunar swirl.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
Their result, the authors say, sets an upper limit on just how much water ice exists at the surface inside the moon’s most shadowy craters.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026
The distinctive red of the moon in Dury's image had nothing to do with the eclipse itself — which had occurred hours earlier — but rather resulted from an atmospheric phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2026
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Dallas Morning News, 18 Mar. 2026
For a landing targeted at the end of 2026 following a ride to orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Intuitive Machines six-legged lunar lander is aiming to touch down amid a strange geographical anomaly on the moon known as a lunar swirl.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
Their result, the authors say, sets an upper limit on just how much water ice exists at the surface inside the moon’s most shadowy craters.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026
The distinctive red of the moon in Dury's image had nothing to do with the eclipse itself — which had occurred hours earlier — but rather resulted from an atmospheric phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 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 21 Mar. 2026.
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