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LUNAR MONTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lunar month mean? 

LUNAR MONTH (noun)
  The noun LUNAR MONTH has 1 sense:

1. the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)play

  Familiarity information: LUNAR MONTH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LUNAR MONTH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The period between successive new moons (29.531 days)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

lunar month; lunation; moon; synodic month

Hypernyms ("lunar month" is a kind of...):

month (a time unit of approximately 30 days)

Holonyms ("lunar month" is a part of...):

lunar year (a period of 12 lunar months)


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