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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
moonwalk is a noun meaning "a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a kind of dance step in which the dancer seems to be sliding on the spot
“Michael Jackson perfected the moonwalk in the 1980s”
an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for moonwalk come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.