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moon-moon

moon-moon is the alternative form of moonmoon.

Meaning of moonmoon

Noun

moonmoon (plural moonmoons)

  1. (Internet) A moon that orbits a larger moon.
    • Sarah Laskow at Atlas Obscura explains that moonmoon is catching on because there’s something pleasing about “recursive places,” like islands within islands, volcanoes within volcanoes and rivers running through a sea.2018 October 11, Jason Daley, “If a Moon Has a Moon, Is Its Moon Called a Moonmoon?”, in Smithsonian

Forms of moon-moon

pluralmoon-moons

Questions about moon-moon

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

Words near moon-moon in the dictionary

  1. moon-lilies
  2. moon-lily
  3. moon-lit
  4. moon-man
  5. moon-men
  6. moon-moon
  7. moon-moons
  8. moon-phase
  9. moon-pool
  10. moon-pools
  11. moon-quake

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