Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun phase_of_the_moon

1 sense of phase of the moon

Sense 1
phase of the moon -- (a time when the Moon presents a particular recurring appearance)
       => time period, period of time, period -- (an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period")
       => phase -- ((astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); "the full phase of the moon")