moon about

  • 1moon about — phrasal verb moon around or moon about [intransitive/transitive] Word forms moon around : present tense I/you/we/they moon around he/she/it moons around present participle mooning around past tense mooned around past participle mooned around… …

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  • 2moon about — verb be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed • Syn: ↑mope, ↑moon around • Derivationally related forms: ↑mope (for: ↑mope) • Hypernyms: ↑be …

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  • 3moon about — v. loiter, wander aimlessly; go astray …

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  • 4be over the moon (about something) — british informal phrase to be very happy about something Keith was over the moon about becoming a father. Thesaurus: to be, or to become happy or happiersynonym Main entry: moon …

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  • 5moon — ► NOUN 1) (also Moon) the natural satellite of the earth, orbiting it every 28 days and shining by reflected light from the sun. 2) a natural satellite of any planet. 3) literary or humorous a month. ► VERB 1) (usu. moon about/around) behave or… …

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  • 6moon — moon1 W3 [mu:n] n [: Old English; Origin: mona] 1.) the moon/the Moon the round object that you can see shining in the sky at night, and that moves around the Earth every 28 days ▪ The Americans landed on the moon in 1969. ▪ the craters on the… …

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  • 7moon — 1 noun 1 the moon the round object that you can see shining in the sky at night, and that moves around the Earth every 28 days: the first man on the moon 2 (singular) the shape of this object as it appears at a particular time: a crescent moon |… …

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  • 8moon — /mun / (say moohn) noun 1. (often upper case) the body which revolves around the earth monthly at a mean distance of 384 403 km, accompanying the earth in its annual revolution about the sun. It is 3476 km in diameter, and its mass is 0.0123 that …

  • 9moon — moon1 [ mun ] noun ** the moon the object similar to a planet that goes around the Earth and that you can see shining in the sky at night: The moon rose above the ridge of the eastern desert. the first spacecraft ever to land on the moon a. count …

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  • 10moon — I UK [muːn] / US [mun] noun Word forms moon : singular moon plural moons ** the moon a) the object similar to a planet that goes round the Earth and that you can see shining in the sky at night The moon rose above the ridge of the eastern desert …

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