lunar month

1. 1.

   the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)

   Synonymsmoonlunationsynodic month

   Broadermonth

   Part oflunar year

Questions about lunar month

What does lunar month mean?

lunar month means "the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)".

What is another word for lunar month?

Close synonyms include moon, lunation, synodic month. 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 lunar month a common word?

lunar month 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.