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Definition of New moon

1. Noun. The time at which the Moon appears as a narrow waxing crescent.

Definition of New moon

1. Noun. The phase of the moon when it is in conjunction with the sun. ¹

2. Noun. The moon when it is in conjunction with the sun. ¹

3. Noun. The phase of the moon when it is waxing. ¹

4. Noun. The moon when it is waxing. ¹

5. Noun. The day when the new moon is first seen or is expected to appear. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of New Moon

Literary usage of New moon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"3) and also in connection with both new moon and feast (Hos. ii. 13; Ezek. xlv. 17; Neh. x. 34), but in none of these passages is there the slightest ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1852)
"EMB period of nineteen years, and that whenever the new moon falls on the 1st ... For instance, in 1831, the 14th of March was a day of new moon : go on ..."

3. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by Sir William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"The seventh new moon of the religious year, being that of Tisri, ... The religious observance of the day of the new moon may plainly be regarded as the ..."

4. The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation ...by Nathaniel Bowditch by Nathaniel Bowditch (1826)
"An eclipse of the sun can happen only at the time of new moon. If the moon's longitude ¡it that time is not distant from either node of the moon's* orbit ..."

5. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"The natural month is the course of the moon, from one new moon to another; the political month ... And so, in like manner, there is a natural new moon day, ..."

6. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"We might have concluded but for these passages that the new moon, so prominent in the ОТ, had fallen into desuetude. But in St. Paul's phrasing in these two ..."

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