harvest moon
English
Etymology
Extra light provides longer hours for the harvesting that occurs in the Northern Hemisphere at this time of year.
Noun
harvest moon (plural harvest moons)
- The first full moon of autumn by a tropical year.
- 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.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- Boxer would even come out at nights and work for an hour or two on his own by the light of the harvest moon.
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Synonyms
- wine moon, singing moon, elk call moon
Related terms
- wolf moon, hunger moon, old moon (January)
- snow moon, ice moon (February)
- worm moon, sap moon, sugaring moon, crow moon, storm moon (March)
- pink moon, egg moon, grass moon, rain moon, growing moon, wind moon (April)
- flower moon, planting moon, milk moon, hare moon (May)
- strawberry moon, rose moon, honey moon, mead moon (June)
- buck moon, thunder moon, deer moon, hay moon (July)
- sturgeon moon, corn moon, fruit moon, barley moon (August)
- harvest moon, gypsy moon (September)
- hunter's moon (October)
- beaver moon, frosty moon, snow moon (November)
- cold moon, long Night moon, winter moon (December)
Translations
first full moon of autumn
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full moon nearest the autumn equinox
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See also
- blue moon
- wet moon