Synonyms:
crescent(a), crescent-shaped, semilunar, lunate
Meaning: resembling the new moon in shape
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
crescent
Meaning: any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters
Usage examples
'Lady Georgina Fawley, 49 Fortescue Crescent, W.'
The shop was black except for the paler crescent of the bow window giving onto the street.
Once, I glanced behind, and saw the earth, a small crescent of blue light, receding away to my left.
I came up over the little ridge and discovered the bungalow village I had been seeking, nestling in a crescent lap of dunes.
The world had been very cruel to him, and he could not go to Onslow Crescent, and behave there prettily, hearing the praises of Florence with all the ardor of a discreet lover.
He had never been "captain" of anything except the Crescent Volunteer Fire Company, but he owned the title because he collected rents, wrote insurance, and meddled with lawsuits.
Baptized before without the choice, But this time consciously, of grace Unto supremest name, Called to my full, the crescent dropped, Existence's whole arc filled up With one small diadem.
Lady Julia's manners were certainly not quite those of Mrs. Roper; but she made the tea very much in the way in which it was made at Burton Crescent, and Eames found that he could eat his egg, at any rate on the second morning, without any tremor in his hand, in spite of the coronet on the silver egg-cup.
Rose followed her to her room, a pleasant, breezy apartment, opening on a veranda, and looking out upon the sea, whose dark waves, here and there tipped with foam, could be dimly seen rolling and tossing beneath the light of the stars and of a young moon that hung like a golden crescent just above the horizon.