minimoon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A brief honeymoon or holiday taken after a wedding.
noun
  1. A small asteroid captured by the Earth's gravity and temporarily acting as a second moon of Earth.
  2. Synonym of micromoon (“a full moon which appears unusually small due to coinciding with the Moon's apogee”).

Pronunciation

/ˈmɪn.iˌmuːn/

Word forms

minimoon minimoons mini-moon

Etymology

Blend of mini- + honeymoon.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Related words

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.