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harvest moons

harvest moons is the plural of harvest moon.

Meaning of harvest moon

Noun

harvest moon (plural harvest moons)

  1. The first full moon of autumn by a tropical year.
    • A silvery cloud drifted over the mountains that surrounded him, its edges glowing with ruddy light cast from the harvest moon cradled between two peaks.2003, Christopher Paolini, “Discovery”, in Eragon, page 6
  2. The full moon nearest the autumn equinox, when the moon rises the latest and lowest in the sky and seems to appear the biggest, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere.
    • Round and red as the harvest moon through the mist of the marshes1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II)

Questions about harvest moons

What is harvest moons the plural of?
Harvest moons is the plural of harvest moon.

Words near harvest moons in the dictionary

  1. harvest lords
  2. harvest mice
  3. harvest mite
  4. harvest mites
  5. harvest moon
  6. harvest moons
  7. harvest mouse
  8. harvest queen
  9. harvest queens
  10. harvest season
  11. harvest seasons

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