This week’s theme
Words related to the number 29

This week’s words
aderation
saturnalian
bissextile
lunation
occiput

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PRONUNCIATION:

(loo-NAY-shuhn)

MEANING:

noun: The time between two new moons, about 29 and a half days. A lunar month.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin luna (moon). Earliest documented use: 1398.

USAGE:

“‘A mountainside stripped bare in, say, one lunation. And another forest gone in another lunation, and so on.’ Tam swallowed heavily. ‘That would destroy the planet before long.’”
L.S. King; Children of the Enaisi; Loriendil Publishing; 2017.

See more usage examples of lunation in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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