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BLUE MOON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blue moon mean?
• BLUE MOON (noun)
The noun BLUE MOON has 1 sense:
1. a long time
Familiarity information: BLUE MOON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A long time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context example:
something that happens once in blue moon almost never happens
Hypernyms ("blue moon" is a kind of...):
age; long time; years (a prolonged period of time)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
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