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lunar eclipse

lunar eclipse noun: a phenomenon occurring when the Earth casts a shadow over the Moon.

lunar eclipse: a phenomenon occurring when the Earth casts a shadow over the Moon
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Noun

lunar eclipse (plural lunar eclipses)

  1. A phenomenon occurring when the Earth casts a shadow over the Moon.

lunar eclipse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu

lunar eclipse in Hindi

when the Earth casts its shadow over the Moon
चंद्रग्रहण candragrahaṇ

lunar eclipse in Tamil

நிலவொளி மறைப்பு, மதியொளி மறைப்பு, சந்திரகிரகணம், திங்கள் மறைப்பு, நிலா ஒளி மறைவு, சந்திர கிரகணம்

lunar eclipse in Bengali

when the Earth casts its shadow over the Moon
চন্দ্রগ্রহণ condrogrohon

lunar eclipse in Telugu

when the Earth casts its shadow over the Moon
చంద్ర గ్రహణము candra grahaṇamu
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lunar eclipse in Gujarati
ચંદ્રગ્રહણ candragrahaṇ
lunar eclipse in Arabic
خُسُوف اَلْقَمَر ḵusūf al-qamar
lunar eclipse in Malay
gerhana bulan
lunar eclipse in Indonesian
gerhana bulan
lunar eclipse in Persian
ماهگرفتگی, خسوف
lunar eclipse in Thai
จันทรคราส jan-trá-krâat
lunar eclipse in Vietnamese
nguyệt thực

Forms of lunar eclipse

plurallunar eclipses

Questions about lunar eclipse

What does lunar eclipse mean?
Lunar eclipse means a phenomenon occurring when the Earth casts a shadow over the Moon.
What is lunar eclipse in Hindi?
Lunar eclipse in Hindi is चंद्रग्रहण (candragrahaṇ). See Lunar eclipse meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is lunar eclipse?
Lunar eclipse is a noun.
What is the plural of lunar eclipse?
The plural of lunar eclipse is lunar eclipses.

Words near lunar eclipse in the dictionary

  1. lunar cycles
  2. lunar deities
  3. lunar deity
  4. lunar distance
  5. lunar distances
  6. lunar eclipse
  7. lunar eclipses
  8. lunar hay fever
  9. lunar letter
  10. lunar letters
  11. lunar lifeboat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lunar eclipse (page history and authors); lunar eclipse (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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