Meaning and Origin
What does the name Moon mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- A submission from Virginia, U.S. says the name Moon means "Protector of our world, our lives, our hearts".
- According to a user from Virginia, U.S., the name Moon means "The protector of our world, our lives, and our heart".
- A submission from Texas, U.S. says the name Moon means "Shining bright".
- A submission from India says the name Moon means "Bright".
- A user from Canada says the name Moon is of Korean origin and means "Learning, Study, literature and letters".
- A user from Korea, Republic of says the name Moon means "Letter, writing and language which origin from chinese character".
- A submission from Indiana, U.S. says the name Moon means "Celestial" and is of English origin.
- A submission from Luxembourg says the name Moon means "Door" and is of Korean origin.
- The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month."The crescent moon, the diadem of night." [Cowper.]
- A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
- The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.
- [Fort] A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
- The deliberately exposed naked buttocks.(slang)
Etymology: OE. mone, AS. mōna; akin to D. maan, OS. & OHG. māno, G. mond, Icel. māni, Dan. maane, Sw. måne, Goth. mēna, Lith. menů, L. mensis month, Gr. mh`nh moon, mh`n month, Skr. mās moon, month; prob. from a root meaning to measure (cf. Skr. mā to measure), from its serving to measure the time. √271. Cf. Mete to measure, Menses Monday Month
- To expose to the rays of the moon."If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned." [Holland.]
- To expose one's naked buttocks to (a person); -- a vulgar sign of contempt or disrespect, sometimes done as a prank.
- Any natural satellite of a planet ("Jupiter has sixteen moons")
- The natural satellite of the Earth ("the average distance to the Moon is 384,400 kilometers" and "men first stepped on the moon in 1969")
- Any object resembling a moon ("he made a moon lamp that he used as a night light" and "the clock had a moon that showed various phases")
- United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920)
- The light of the Moon ("moonlight is the smuggler's enemy" and "the Moon was bright enough to read by")
- The period between successive new moons (29.531 days)
- Expose one's buttocks to ("moon the audience")
- Be idle in a listless or dreamy way
- Have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake
From Middle English Mone, mone, from Old English mōna, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), from *mē-² (“to measure”)
- The Earth's moon Luna; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.
- (paganism) The god of the Moon in Heathenry.
- A surname.
- The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.