¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Moonshot
1. the launching of a spacecraft to the moon [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moonshot
Literary usage of Moonshot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Usurpers of Freedom in Conspiracy by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"Then, when there is going to be a moonshot or something of interest, it sends
down the small reconnaissance UFOs. [H: Well, at least they are getting ..."
2. Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options by David G. Victor (2004)
"... large amounts of spending on particular technologies—"winners"—you should
consider the DARPA model rather than the moonshot or the Manhattan Project. ..."
3. The Poetical Works of John Payne by John Payne (1902)
"... betwixt us twain: The memory of the time we kiss'd In passionate innocence,
nor wist Of any harm, will never wane, Maugre this bloody moonshot mist. ..."
4. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1886)
"... Deep, solemn, immense; veiling the stars in the clear Thrilling and luminous
blue of the moonshot atmosphere; Ah. could the Night remain ! Night. ..."
5. English Literature: An Introduction and Guide to the Best English Books: a by Edwin Lillie Miller (1917)
"One critic calls them fairy cobwebs of song spun out of rainbow film and moonshot
mist. At all events, they won for him the ear of the world and the ..."
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