harvest moon en · NOUN
Etymology
Extra light provides longer hours for the harvesting that occurs in the Northern Hemisphere at this time of year.
Meanings
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The first full moon of autumn by a tropical year.
A silvery cloud drifted over the mountains that surrounded him, its edges glowing with ruddy light cast from the harvest moon cradled between two peaks.
2003, Christopher Paolini, “Discovery”, in Eragon, page 6:
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The full moon nearest the autumn equinox, when the moon rises the latest and lowest in the sky and seems to appear the biggest, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere.
Boxer would even come out at nights and work for an hour or two on his own by the light of the harvest moon.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:Round and red as the harvest moon through the mist of the marshes
1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| harvest moons | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
old moon · beaver moon · corn moon · milk moon · sap moon · deer moon · pink moon · wind moon · rose moon · snow moon · growing moon · mead moon · hunter's moon · honey moon · grass moon · hunger moon · blue moon · worm moon · winter moon · frost moon · egg moon · fruit moon · flower moon · rain moon · cold moon · planting moon · thunder moon · sturgeon moon · long night moon · hare moon · wet moon · buck moon · gypsy moon · hay moon · snow moon · strawberry moon · crow moon · storm moon · barley moon · ice moon · sugaring moon · frosty moon · wolf moon
Synonyms
elk call moon · singing moon · wine moon
Translations (9)
de Septembervollmond (full moon nearest the autumn equinox) · ja 中秋の名月 (full moon nearest the autumn equinox) · de Herbstmond (full moon nearest the autumn equinox) · de erster Vollmond m im Herbst (first full moon of autumn) · fi syyskuun täysikuu (full moon nearest the autumn equinox) · fi syksyn ensimmäinen täysikuu (first full moon of autumn) · de Herbstvollmond (first full moon of autumn) · de Herbstvollmond (full moon nearest the autumn equinox) · de Erntemond (full moon nearest the autumn equinox)