Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

three-quarter moon

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English

Syllables: three--quar-ter -moon
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The phase where the moon is three-fourths of the way through its cycle from one new moon to the next.

Example Sentences

"The ten minutes of tropical twilight brought its quick melancholy and then the stars and the three-quarter moon blazed down and the sea died to a whisper."

Inflected Forms

three-quarter moons (plural)

Questions

What does three-quarter moon mean?: The phase where the moon is three-fourths of the way through its cycle from one new moon to the next.

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