who grasps the struggling heifer's lunar horns—Alexander Pope
2
a
: of, relating to, or resembling the moon
lunar craters
a lunar landscape
b
: designed for use on the moon
lunar vehicles
3
: measured by the moon's revolution
lunar month
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Here again, binoculars will prove most beneficial in helping to find not only Pollux and Castor, but this exceedingly slender lunar sliver.—Joe Rao, Space.com, 24 June 2025 In this new lunar cycle, the sun and the moon meet in the sensitive water sign of Cancer to open up a phase of deep emotional connection.—Danijela Pilic, Glamour, 24 June 2025 On Wednesday, Firefly Aerospace announced plans to launch a new lunar imaging service called Ocula using its Elytra spacecraft, ostensibly to help commercial companies identify mineral deposits on the moon’s surface and map future landing sites.—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025 Based on these astronauts’ symptoms, and based on later research on lunar dust simulants, it was thought that the substance was extremely harmful to humans.—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for lunar
Word History
Etymology
Middle English lunare, borrowed from Latin lūnāris "of the moon, crescent-shaped," from lūna "moon" + -āris-ar; lūna going back to Indo-European *lou̯k-s-neh2, derivative of the verb stem *leu̯k- "become bright," whence also Old Church Slavic luna "moon," Russian luná, Old Prussian lauxnos "stars," Armenian lusin "moon"; from a stem *lou̯k-s-no- Old Irish lúan in día lúain "Monday," Avestan raoxšna- "light," (with presumed zero-grade) Greek lýkhnos "lamp" — more at light entry 1
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