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moon-faces

moon-faces is the plural of moon-face.

Meaning of moon-face

Noun

moon-face (countable and uncountable, plural moon-faces)

  1. A noticeably round face.
    • Her white-powdered moon-face pondered the small mystery for a short time only.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 46
  2. A swollen and rounded face in a non-obese patient, most often associated with Cushing's syndrome or treatment with corticosteroids.
    Synonyms:
    moon facies

Questions about moon-faces

What is moon-faces the plural of?
Moon-faces is the plural of moon-face.

Words near moon-faces in the dictionary

  1. moon-eye
  2. moon-eyed
  3. moon-eyes
  4. moon-face
  5. moon-faced
  6. moon-faces
  7. moon-flask
  8. moon-flasks
  9. moon-flood
  10. moon-god
  11. moon-gods

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moon-faces (page history and authors); moon-face (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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