NEW MOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does new moon mean? 

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

1. the time at which the Moon appears as a narrow waxing crescent

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW MOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time at which the Moon appears as a narrow waxing crescent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

new moon; new phase of the moon

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

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

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

month (a time unit of approximately 30 days)

 Context examples 

First, Uranus will send the new moon of February 23 bright greetings from your friends, hopes, and wishes sector (eleventh house).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Informally named "Peggy," the object may be a new moon.

(Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn, NASA)

John was a little disappointed not to find a tender Niobe, but feeling that his dignity demanded the first apology, he made none, only came leisurely in and laid himself upon the sofa with the singularly relevant remark, We are going to have a new moon, my dear.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

By tracking 'gators, the ecologists determined that alligators remain in marine habitats for longer periods around spring tides — tides just after a full or new moon, when there's the greatest difference between high and low water. (In contrast, neap tides occur just after the first or third quarters of the moon, when there is the least change between high and low water.)

(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)

Now let’s turn to the new moon in Pisces four degrees on February 23 (plus two weeks).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A normal new moon usually offers a powerful opportunity, and a new moon solar eclipse is like three new moons in one.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The new moon of March 24 will bring the spotlight to your partner, who might be your spouse or steady date.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

On December 25/26, you will have the Sun with the new moon solar eclipse join these partying planets in Capricorn.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Your partner will be your main focus starting on March 24, at the new moon in Aries at four degrees.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Pisces are known to be highly creative, and at this new moon, which will be close to Neptune, you will prove this truth 12 times over.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)