lunar

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (2)  · 
“
All the dates are in Chinese lunar calendar with corresponding western calendar dates [...]

View all »
Definitions (34)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. adjective Of, involving, caused by, or affecting the moon.
  2. adjective Measured by the revolution of the moon.
  3. adjective Of or relating to silver.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (28)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • It would cost perhaps $10,000 per pound to move metals from the asteroids to near-lunar orbit, a cost far higher than that of supertanker transport on our oceans. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • I named the lunar seas and craters and mountains for him. —  Asimov's Science Fiction [2001.04]
  • —Tried hard for a lunar, but the moon was lost in the glare of the sun. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
  • You're throwing away your whole career for nothing I wouldn't call a lunar landing 'nothing It's a goddamned ghost! —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 06 - December 1996
  • They had named the lunar module Faith, to go along with Hope and to signify their trust that it would set them down and bring them back again safely. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 06 - December 1996
More examples »
 

Tags

lunar hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Words tagged lunar

Stats

This word has been looked up 50 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English, crescent-shaped, from Old French lunaire, from Latin lūnāris, of the moon, from lūna, moon; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. = French lunaire = Provencal Spanish Portuguese lunar = Italian lunare, from Latin lunaris, of the moon, lunar, from luna, the moon: see luna.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈljunər/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a week.

Recently looked up

unfettered · elderberry · serendipity · newtonian · hobo

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich