lunet

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noun

A little moon or satellite.

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Meanings

nounlunet (plural lunets)

plural lunets

  1. obsoleteA little moon or satellite.

    […] our predecessors; who could never have believed, that there were such lunets about some of the planets, as our late perspectives have descried […]

    1645, Joseph Hall, The Peace-Maker

Origin

See lunette.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

unlet
Cite this entry
APA

lunet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunet

MLA

“lunet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunet. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lunet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunet.

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