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ALL meanings of luna

Lu·na
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  • noun luna the ancient Roman goddess personifying the moon, sometimes identified with Diana. 1
  • noun luna (in alchemy) silver. 1
  • noun luna (lowercase). Also, lunette. Ecclesiastical. the crescent-shaped receptacle within the monstrance, for holding the consecrated Host in an upright position. 1
  • noun luna A series of Soviet moon probes launched in 1959–76. They made the first hard and soft landings on the moon (1959 and 1966). 1
  • noun luna the Roman goddess of the moon 0
  • noun luna any of a series of Soviet lunar space-probes, one of which, Luna 9, made the first soft landing on the moon (1966) 0
  • noun luna the goddess of the moon: identified with the Greek Selene 0
  • noun luna the moon personified 0
  • noun luna silver 0
  • noun luna (entomology) A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna. 0
  • noun luna (Christianity, chiefly Catholicism and Anglicanism) A lunette: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance. 0
  • noun luna (Hawaii) A foreman on a plantation. 0
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