blue moon
blue moon noun: the third full moon in a season that contains four rather than the usual three full moons.
Noun
blue moon (countable and uncountable, plural blue moons)
- The third full moon in a season that contains four rather than the usual three full moons.
- The second of two full moons that occur in the same calendar month (a definition created by mistake in the 20th century).
- The moon tinted towards blue as it appears in the sky, caused by dust or smoke in the atmosphere.
- A long time.
- A bright blue, sweet-flavored ice cream that is popular in the Midwestern U.S. and is a component of Superman ice cream.
blue moon meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese
blue moon in Tamil
- பௌர்ணமி, நீல நிலா
blue moon in Vietnamese
- full moon
- trăng xanh
- ice cream
- trăng xanh
Forms of blue moon
| plural | blue moons |
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Words formed from blue moon
Words that rhyme with blue moon
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- croon
- boon
- monsoon
- noon
- pontoon
- raccoon
- tribune
- attune
- dragoon
- hoon
- immune
- picayune
- platoon
- soon
- swoon
- tycoon
- afternoon
- baboon
- commune
- doubloon
- harpoon
- jejune
- pantaloon
- picaroon
- shalloon
- bassoon
- buffoon
- cocoon
- dabloon
- entune
- gadroon
- hewn
- impugn
- jargoon
- june
- lacune
- last chance saloon
- lune
- macaroon
- man in the moon
- maroon
- poon
- puccoon
- ratoon
- scone
- toon
- trial balloon
- troon
Questions about blue moon
- What does blue moon mean?
- Blue moon means the third full moon in a season that contains four rather than the usual three full moons.
- What is blue moon in Tamil?
- Blue moon in Tamil is பௌர்ணமி, நீல நிலா. See Blue moon meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is blue moon?
- Blue moon is a noun.
- What is the plural of blue moon?
- The plural of blue moon is blue moons.
Words near blue moon in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: blue moon (page history and authors); blue moon (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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