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waning moon

noun

Etymology

From waning + moon. Compare Middle English waynynge of the mone, wanynge of þe mone (literally “waning of the moon”).

  1. inherited from *mḗh₁n̥s✻ — “moon; month”
  2. inherited from *mēnô✻ — “moon”
  3. inherited from *mānō✻
  4. inherited from mōna — “moon”
  5. inherited from mon
  6. formed as waning moon — “waning + moon”

Definitions

  1. A moon (usually the Moon, that is, Earth's moon) when it appears smaller each night as it…

    A moon (usually the Moon, that is, Earth's moon) when it appears smaller each night as it progresses from a full moon to a new moon: a moon in any of the diminishing lunar phases.

The neighborhood

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