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moonmoons

moonmoons is the plural 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

Questions about moonmoons

What is moonmoons the plural of?
Moonmoons is the plural of moonmoon.

Words near moonmoons in the dictionary

  1. moonly
  2. moonman
  3. moonmen
  4. moonmilk
  5. moonmoon
  6. moonmoons
  7. moonnaut
  8. moonnauts
  9. Moonpar
  10. moonpath
  11. moonpaths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moonmoons (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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