Meaning

3 senses

  1. A brief honeymoon or holiday taken after a wedding.

  2. A small asteroid captured by the Earth's gravity and temporarily acting as a second moon of Earth.

  3. (uncommon)Synonym of micromoon (“a full moon which appears unusually small due to coinciding with the Moon's apogee”).

Origin

Blend of mini- + honeymoon. From mini- + moon.

Blend of mini- + honeymoon.

From mini- + moon.

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Forms

plural: minimoons

Synonyms

1 synonyms
micromoon

Antonyms

1 antonyms
supermoon

Word family

4 related words
Relatedmoonetmoonettemoonitomoonlet

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
minimalminimalistminimizeB1minimumB1miningminion

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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