Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The moon when it is visible as a fully illuminated disk.
- n. The period of the month when such a moon occurs.
Wiktionary
- n. The phase of the moon when it is in opposition to the sun.
- n. The moon when it is in opposition to the sun.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. The time when the moon is full.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the time when the Moon is fully illuminated
Examples
“It was November, and light from the full moon sparkled on the frost-covered ground, and the stars glittered against the black-velvet backdrop of the sky.”
“As the valley went dark, a full moon rose from the Sangres.”
“Evection: The second inequality of the moon, which vanishes at new and full moon and is a maximum at first and last quarter.”
“On my TV screen a full moon is rising, the Duchess and her fiendish lackeys are plotting new devilment, and justice, in the form of a flame-haired female privateer, is riding into the dark and unholy night.”
“She told them about the rare parties, how they were held during a full moon so that country gentry could find their way in their carriages, chaises and troikas.”
“The full moon gives us light, literally and magickally.”
“ ONE EVENING THROUGH THE SKYLIGHTthe full moon fell heavily on Elphaba sleeping.”
“Outside, the full moon glows bright but the North Star shines even brighter.”
“Camille and I were bound to the pull of her tides, and I found myself dallying, wondering what the nights of the full moon must be like at the Puma Pride compound with everyone shifting.”
“Then they changed that dress and displayed her in a robe of azure; and she reappeared like the full moon when it riseth over the horizon, with her coal-black hair and cheeks delicately fair; and teeth shown in sweet smiling and breasts firm rising and crowning sides of the softest and waist of the roundest.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘full moon’.
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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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ENVI - Collocations DEFG
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
dactylis glomerata, daily allowance, daily contact zone, daily cycle of tides, daily intake level, daily mortality rate, daily office and ..., daily peak, daily range in va..., daily runoff regu..., daily SO2 levels, dairy cattle and 5213 more...
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Nature and Environment
north, east, west, mountain, sea, beach, river, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, island and 205 more...
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Behr Paint Colors
Names used for Behr Paints in spring of 2008. I'm curious to see if Behr gives the same colors different names in other years, so I've tagged each color with its Behr product number. It turns out t...
billowy clouds, soft lace, victorian pearl, china cup, soft muslin, bleached shell, belgian cream, chamois cloth, natural linen, popped corn, divine pleasure, vanilla delight and 283 more...
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(Medical) Marijuana Strains
Names of various "medicinal" Cannabis strains, harvested from various sources.
grape ape, grape wreck, trainwreck, black domina, sweet wreck, cal-p, jack herer, purple princess, northern lights #5, amnesia haze, c5 haze, cambodian haze and 685 more...
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