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moon-flood

moon-flood is the alternative form of moon flood.

Meaning of moon flood

Noun

moon flood (plural moon floods)

  1. Either the moon's tide or a tidal flood.
    • Doubtful at first and far away, / The moon-flood creeps more wide and wide ; Up a ridged beach of cloudy gray, Curved round the east as round a bay, / It slips and spreads its gradual tide.1876, Lowell, James Russell, “ALADDIN. AN INVITATION. The Nomades.”, in The poetical works of James Russell Lowell, page 345

Forms of moon-flood

pluralmoon-floods

Questions about moon-flood

What is moon-flood the alternative form of?
Moon-flood is the alternative form of moon flood.

Words near moon-flood in the dictionary

  1. moon-face
  2. moon-faced
  3. moon-faces
  4. moon-flask
  5. moon-flasks
  6. moon-flood
  7. moon-god
  8. moon-gods
  9. moon-knife
  10. moon-knives
  11. moon-less

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