Who grasps the struggling heifer's lunar horns.—Alexander Pope
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a
: of, relating to, or resembling the moon
lunar craters
a lunar landscape
b
: designed for use on the moon
lunar vehicles
3
: measured by the moon's revolution
lunar month
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During its week-long test this past March, engineering teams monitored ERNEST across several navigational scenarios, including traveling at night and other poor lighting conditions to simulate certain lunar environments.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
5 July 2026 Phase 1, which is currently in progress and will continue until 2029, focuses on robotic missions to demonstrate that the technology and vehicles required for a lunar settlement will work.—
Briana Alvarado,
ABC News,
1 July 2026 Humanity could be years away from seeing astronauts not just landing on the moon, but putting down roots by living and working on the lunar surface.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for lunar
Word History
Etymology
Middle English lunare, borrowed from Latin lūnāris "of the moon, crescent-shaped," from lūna "moon" + -āris-ar; lūna going back to Indo-European *lou̯k-s-neh2, derivative of the verb stem *leu̯k- "become bright," whence also Old Church Slavic luna "moon," Russian luná, Old Prussian lauxnos "stars," Armenian lusin "moon"; from a stem *lou̯k-s-no- Old Irish lúan in día lúain "Monday," Avestan raoxšna- "light," (with presumed zero-grade) Greek lýkhnos "lamp" — more at light entry 1