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Singular
moon

Plural
moons

 
The moon
  1. The moon is the shining white and grey object in the sky at night. It appears to change shape from round (a full moon) to a crescent and back again. It's like a small planet that goes around the Earth.
    I was able to see the road because there was a full moon that night.
  2. A moon is a thing like a small planet that goes around another planet.
    Galileo saw four moons of Jupiter: Callisto, Europa, Ganymede and Io.

Plain form
moon

Third-person singular
moons

Past tense
mooned

Past participle
mooned

Present participle
mooning

 
These people are mooning a crowd
  1. If you moon someone, you show them your bare buttocks.
    Someone in the car pulled down their pants and mooned us as they drove past.


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