moon landing

English

Etymology

From moon +‎ landing.

Noun

moon landing (plural moon landings)

1. The safe arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the moon.
   • [1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎^[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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 ʕalā 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

• Persian: فرود بر ماه (forūd bar māh)
• 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”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “moon landing”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “moon landing” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• nanomolding