moon

1. 1.

   have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake

   “She looked out the window, daydreaming”

   Synonymsdaydream

   Broaderidle
2. 2.

   be idle in a listless or dreamy way

   Synonymsmoon aroundmoon on

   Broaderidle
3. 3.

   expose one's buttocks to

   “moon the audience”

   Broaderexpose

Other forms of moon

plural

moons·

past tense

mooned·

present participle

mooning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about moon

What does moon mean?

moon means "the natural satellite of the Earth". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in moon?

moon has 1 syllable: moon. In IPA it is /ˈmun/.

What is another word for moon?

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

moon is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with moon?

1 word rhymes with moon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.