moon

moon is part of the Basic English 850.

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Noun

Singular moon

Plural moons

The moon

1. The moon is the round white thing in the sky at night. 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.

Verb

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.