Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Roman Mythology The goddess of the moon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The moon: personified as a Roman goddess, Luna, answering to the Greek goddess Selene.
- n. An occasional form of crescent-headed arrow with the concave side outermost and sharpened. Arrows of this form, like the rarer ones with a chisel-shaped head, were intended to cut the hamstring of horses and of animals of the chase.
- n. In alchemy, silver.
- n. The luna-moth.
Wiktionary
- n. The name of Earth's moon.
- n. Roman mythology goddess of the moon; equivalent of the Greek Selene. Sister of Aurora and Sol.
- n. A female given name.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The moon.
- n. (Alchemy) Silver.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Roman mythology) the goddess of the Moon; counterpart of Greek Selene
Etymologies
- From Latin lūna. (Wiktionary)
- Latin Lūna, from lūna, moon; see leuk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“PAN AND LUNA" describes a mythical adventure of Luna -- the moon, given by Virgil in the Georgics; and has for its text a line from them (III.”
“La Luna is a small production and they are simply one the best producers of Lambrusco - period.”
Department of Greenwashing: Ceci La Luna lambrusco | Dr Vino's wine blog
“The Media Luna is a coffee shop-restaurant, on the lake side of the road.”
“Selene (or Latin Luna), the eye of night, the sister of the god of the sun, the goddess of the moon, was also called Mene (Mênê).”
“Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart will be doing a Q&A in Luna Park in Sydney on May 31 followed by a screening of New Moon.”
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“Their soccer positions are extensions of their actual personalities: Bernal plays the fiesty and temperamental forward who dreams of bigger scores and Luna is the level-headed goalkeeper who must save everybody else.”
“ConCATulations for your award and many thanks for your kind visit and comment in Luna's blog!”
“Julia is best known for the two years she spent living on a platform 180 feet up in the canopy of a thousand-year-old redwood tree she called Luna.”
“I am really looking forward to it, since Café Tierra Luna is just down the street from me.”
““I think that Luna is now traveling the world looking for various mad creatures,” Rowling said.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Luna’.
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INTERP - languages
This is not a scientific list based on unified criteria, the sole aim was to collect as many language names as possible.
The list contains the names of the following artificial langua...Abkhazian, Achinese, Acoli, Adangme, Adyghe, Afar, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Angika and 8674 more...
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lunacy
moon-related
moon dog, transient lunar p..., selenography, moonbow, paraselene, maria, parantiselene, moon, luna, trapper's moon, harvest moon, hunter's moon and 94 more...
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Unique names
amazing, unique and beautiful names from all around the world...
Aurélia, Amelie, Angel, Bailey, Brooklynne, Brandi, Cassia, Clarissa, Clara, Darina, Darcy, Dixie and 70 more...
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proppets
proper pet names.
lexi, cleo, mystic, mitsu, Jupiter, Felix, Leela, Fluffy, Feline Unit, Rufus, Baron, kitty meow meow and 38 more...
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no sparkle in the sunshine.
they are but shadows in the night. no light. they prefer the dark.
vespertine, eventide, Luna, star, umbra, whisper, hushed, slink, prowl, lurk, desire, rapacity and 25 more...
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