FULL MOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does full moon mean? 

• FULL MOON (noun)
  The noun FULL MOON has 1 sense:

1. the time when the Moon is fully illuminated

  Familiarity information: FULL MOON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FULL MOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time when the Moon is fully illuminated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

full; full-of-the-moon; full moon; full phase of the moon

Context example:

the moon is at the full

Hypernyms ("full moon" is a kind of...):

phase of the moon (a time when the Moon presents a particular recurring appearance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "full moon"):

harvest moon (the full moon nearest the September equinox)

Holonyms ("full moon" is a part of...):

month (a time unit of approximately 30 days)

 Context examples 

The full moon of March 9 will light your twelfth house of solitude, indicating you need to rest.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If it were visible in the night sky, Jupiter's magnetosphere would appear to be about the same size as Earth's full moon.

(Juno Peers Inside a Giant, NASA)

The full moon appears that much larger in diameter and because it is larger shines 30 percent more moonlight onto the Earth.

(November Supermoon a Spectacular Sight, NASA)

However, the study did not state whether the laser resembled the light of a full moon.

(Geneticists produce laser-activated killer mice, Wikinews)

It was indeed the full moon which shone straight down the aperture which opened upon the cliffs.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Night came on, and a full moon rose high over the trees into the sky, lighting the land till it lay bathed in ghostly day.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And when the full moon had risen, Hansel took his little sister by the hand, and followed the pebbles which shone like newly-coined silver pieces, and showed them the way.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And for the moment the apparition of the gale rose before his eyes—a gale at night, with a clear sky and under a full moon, the huge seas glinting coldly in the moonlight.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was a bright full moon, with heavy black, driving clouds, which threw the whole scene into a fleeting diorama of light and shade as they sailed across.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless, and the lane, which the maid’s window overlooked, was brilliantly lit by the full moon.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)