Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of a moon; without moonlight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being without a moon or moonlight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a night During which no phase of the
Moon is visible to providelight - adjective of a planet Having no orbitting
moon
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without a moon or a visible moon
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Examples
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The young crescent moon had risen, a circumstance which Medea declared enabled her to see more clearly into the future than she could do at the time of the Luna-negers as she called the moonless night.
The Bride of the Nile — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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The young crescent moon had risen, a circumstance which Medea declared enabled her to see more clearly into the future than she could do at the time of the Luna-negers as she called the moonless night.
The Bride of the Nile — Volume 09 Georg Ebers 1867
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The young crescent moon had risen, a circumstance which Medea declared enabled her to see more clearly into the future than she could do at the time of the Luna-negers as she called the moonless night.
The Bride of the Nile — Volume 09 Georg Ebers 1867
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The young crescent moon had risen, a circumstance which Medea declared enabled her to see more clearly into the future than she could do at the time of the Luna-negers as she called the moonless night.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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The young crescent moon had risen, a circumstance which Medea declared enabled her to see more clearly into the future than she could do at the time of the Luna-negers as she called the moonless night.
The Bride of the Nile — Volume 09 Georg Ebers 1867
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"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.
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Blacker than a moonless night and edged with crimson, the blue and purple undersides smelled of wing musk and of Dante—burning leaves and November frost and deep, dark earth.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Blacker than a moonless night and edged with crimson, the blue and purple undersides smelled of wing musk and of Dante—burning leaves and November frost and deep, dark earth.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Now I can tell you about the time I got my limit of snipes ... it was a dark and moonless night in a midwestern cow pasture ....
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With officials at the CIA and the White House watching on television monitors, tensions increased when one of the two Black Hawk helicopters lowered into the compound and, beneath a moonless sky, fell heavily to the ground.
Osama Bin Laden Was Unarmed During Navy SEAL Raid, Says White House 2011
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