who grasps the struggling heifer's lunar horns—Alexander Pope
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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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Read on for what to expect during this lunar phase according to your zodiac sign.—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 31 May 2025 The tune continues on as another shuttle docks at the Clavius moonbase built on the lunar surface.—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 30 May 2025 SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying the Draper Lunar Lander headed for the moon’s Schrödinger basin on the lunar far side.—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 May 2025 That will happen in 2027 at the earliest and require a Starship to get two astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface and back off again.—Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 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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