lunar month

noun

: the time between one new moon and the next, one full moon and the next, etc.

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The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated on the 15th day of the first lunar month. —Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025 The first two events happened in the Tang dynasty and involve emperors gifting mooncakes to people on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. —Michelle Tchea, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024

The complications include a tourbillon, perpetual calendar, minute repeater, and a complex celestial and astronomical system that indicates three lunar month displays that include the synodic, draconic, and anomalistic cycles. —Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024 This day typically falls on the 13th day of the dark half of the lunar month, Ashvina, according to Britannica. —Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024 In popular belief, Zhong Kui is a powerful guard against evil spirits, particularly on New Year’s Day and at the Double Fifth’s Festival, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, when his image is hung in households to prevent occupants from being met with diseases or other misfortunes. —Chadd Scott, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024 During the Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival, celebrated by Chinese around the world on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month each year (September 17 this year), mooncakes are eaten in gluttonous quantities. —Michelle Tchea, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024 Another explanation for the way in which these predication charts work is based on the idea that the pregnant person's hormones change from lunar month to lunar month, either becoming more acidic or alkaline at various times. —Sherri Gordon, Parents, 30 July 2024 End of Ramadan comes amid human turmoil in Gaza Eid al-Fitr, the feast that ends Islam's fasting lunar month of Ramadan, is expected in Gaza on Wednesday, depending on a clear sighting of the moon, but there is little to cheer for Palestinians this year. —USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024

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