English Explanatory Dictionary

once in a purple moon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. Synonym of once in a blue moon (“rarely”).

Word forms

once in a purple moon

Synonyms

rarely seldom infrequently scarcely seldomly uncommonly unoften once in a blue moon

Related words

blue moon
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