moon landing

moon landing

English

Noun

moon landing (plural moon landings)

1. The safe arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the moon
   • [1971, Johnson, Lyndon, The Vantage Point‎, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, LCCN 74-102146, OCLC 1067880747, page 281:

     Throughout our discussions and searching inquiries one object figured ever more prominently—the moon. We learned that it was technologically possible to develop a program to reach the moon, and we came to realize that since the Russians did not then have the ability to reach the moon any more than we did, we had at least a fifty-fifty chance of beating them there. Moreover, a moon-landing goal would give a dramatic focus to a space program designed to develop our skills and capacities on a broad technological front.]

Translations

arrival of a spacecraft on the moon

Arabic: هُبُوط عَلَى الْقَمَر‎ m (hubūṭ ʿalā l-qamar) Catalan: allunatge (ca) m Danish: månelanding c Dutch: maanlanding (nl) f Finnish: kuuhun laskeutuminen French: alunissage (fr) m German: Mondlandung (de) f Hungarian: holdra szállás Italian: allunaggio (it) m Norwegian: månelanding m or f Nynorsk: månelanding f Polish: lądowanie na Księżycu n Portuguese: alunagem f (Portugal), alunissagem f (Brazil) Spanish: alunizaje (es) m Swedish: månlandning (sv) c

Further reading

• “moon landing”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “moon landing, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• moon landing at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “moon landing”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “moon landing” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.

Anagrams

• nanomolding