Moon

From English Moon.

Moon

1. (international standards) ISO 15924 script code for Moon.

From Middle English Mone, mone, from Old English mōna, from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), from *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of Máni.

• moon
• moone (obsolete)
• ☽ (astronomy)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /muːn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /mun/

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• Rhymes: -uːn

Moon or the Moon (plural Moons)

2. The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.

   Synonyms: Cynthia (literary), Luna (science fiction or poetic), Selene (poetic); ☾, ☽ (astronomical and astrological symbols)

   • 2011 September 18, Michael Collins, quotee, “Out of this world: What it's really like to to^[sic] walk on the moon”, in The Independent‎^[1], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 July 2021:

     I kind of have two Moons up there. I look at the Moon just like everybody else who's never been there. But every once in a while I do think of the second Moon, the one that I recall from up close and, yeah, it is kind of hard to believe that I was actually up there.

3. (paganism, mythology) A personification of the moon.
   • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 145:

     Women's rhythm of life, her monthly renewal with her patroness the Moon, is the most important thing in her existence.

   • 1994, Tony Linsell, Anglo-Saxon Mythology, Migration & Magic, Anglo-Saxon Books, →ISBN, page 15:

     Moon, the companion of Night, waxes and wanes, and we call this time a month.

   • 2005, Falcon Stow, An Anglo-Saxon Almanac, privately published, page 13:

     Moon's Day.

   • 2005, Diana Paxson, Taking up the Runes, Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 328:

     Sun come, Moon come, Seed time, dry time, fog and rain, Sowing, growing, reaping, resting, Sun come, Moon come, etc.

5. The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

• A variant of Mohan, from Irish.
• A habitational name of Norman origin from Moyon in La Manche. Compare Mounce.
• An Americanized form of German Mohn or a similar surname.
• A variant of Mun, from Korean.
• A variant Romanization of Chinese 文 (Wén), 萬 / 万 (Wàn), and 滿 / 满 (Mǎn).
• Possibly from Cantonese 滿 / 满 (mun⁵, “full; complete”).^[1]

Moon

1. A surname.
2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Kentucky.
   2. A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
   3. A ghost town in Pennington County, South Dakota.
   4. An unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia.
   5. An unincorporated community in the town of Mosinee, Marathon County, Wisconsin.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Moon is the 758th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 45,528 individuals. Moon is most common among White (65.7%) and Black/African American (10.0%) individuals. [2]

• Mono, OMON, mono, mono-, nomo-