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The sister of Aurora and Sol; the goddess of the moon; equivalent to the Greek Selene.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Roman
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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name
The Earth's Moon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: poetic
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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name
A female given name from Latin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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noun
A lunette: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: chiefly Catholicism and Anglicanism
Topics: Christianity
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noun
A foreman on a plantation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Hawaii
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noun
Argent (silver), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, uncountable
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
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noun
Silver.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
Topics: alchemy, chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, pseudoscience
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noun
(Roman mythology) the goddess of the Moon; counterpart of Greek Selene
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Roman deity
History
From Middle English lune, luna (“the moon”), from Latin lūna/Lūna, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh2. Doublet of Roxane.
Borrowed from Latin lūna (“moon; month; crescent”).
From Hawaiian luna (“leader; supervisor”).
