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over the moon

over the moon prepositional phrase: delighted, thrilled.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Delighted, thrilled.
    • Winemakers are over the moon to be able to showcase the individual nuances within their vineyards.2003 December 14, Kate Drake, “Champagne Supernova”, in Time, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2012
    • Well, I’ve liked Star Wars since the late ’70s. I liked it a lot. But I’m now over the moon about Star Wars, and I think a couple things happened.2016 June 2, Alex McLevy, quoting Cass Sunstein, “Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America”, in AV Club
    Synonyms:
    ecstatic, joyful

over the moon meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

over the moon in Bengali

আনন্দিত, শিহরিত

over the moon in Malayalam

ecstatic, elated, enraptured
ഹർഷോന്മത്തമായ, ആനന്ദനിർവൃതിയനുഭവിക്കുന്ന, അത്യാഹ്ലാദമുള്ള, അത്യാഹ്ലാദവാനായ, ഹർഷോന്മാദത്തിലായ, അത്യുന്മാദലഹരിയിലായ

over the moon in Kannada

ಆನಂದಪರವಶನಾಗಿ, ಬಹಳ ಉತ್ಸಾಹದಿಂದ

Synonyms of over the moon

Origin of over the moon

From the nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle.

Questions about over the moon

What does over the moon mean?
Over the moon means delighted, thrilled.
What is over the moon in Bengali?
Over the moon in Bengali is আনন্দিত, শিহরিত. See Over the moon meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is over the moon?
Over the moon is a prepositional phrase.

Words near over the moon in the dictionary

  1. over the hump
  2. over the left
  3. over the left shoulder
  4. over the line
  5. over the long haul
  6. over the moon
  7. over the odds
  8. over the rainbow
  9. over the river
  10. over the river and through the woods
  11. over the top

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: over the moon (page history and authors); over the moon (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); over the moon (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); over the moon (Kannada 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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