transcription, транскрипция: [ mu:n ]
( moons)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
The moon is the object that you can often see in the sky at night. It goes round the Earth once every four weeks, and as it does so its appearance changes from a circle to part of a circle.
...the first man on the moon...
...the light of a full moon.
N-SING : usu the N , also full/new N
see also new moon
2.
A moon is an object similar to a small planet that travels around a planet.
...Neptune’s large moon.
N-COUNT : usu poss N
3.
If you say that something happens once in a blue moon , you are emphasizing that it does not happen very often at all.
Once in a blue moon you get some problems.
PHRASE : PHR with cl [ emphasis ]
4.
If you say that you are over the moon , you mean that you are very pleased about something. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
= overjoyed
PHRASE : v-link PHR