full-of-the-moon

Questions about full-of-the-moon

What does full-of-the-moon mean?

full-of-the-moon means "the time when the Moon is fully illuminated".

How many syllables are in full-of-the-moon?

full-of-the-moon has 4 syllables and divides as ful-l-of--the--moon under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for full-of-the-moon?

Close synonyms include full moon, full phase of the moon, full. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is full-of-the-moon a common word?

full-of-the-moon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.