mini-moon

See also: minimoon

English

Noun

mini-moon (plural mini-moons)

1. Alternative form of minimoon
   • 2011 April 5, “It was so very cold on our mini-moon'”, in Belfast Telegraph:

     I fell pregnant last November shortly after marrying my husband. We decided to take a "mini-moon" down South, and headed off to Navan and Dublin for a few days.

   • 2011 May 2, Rebecca English, “William to whisk Kate on £4,000-a-night tropical honeymoon... but 'couple face ten weeks APART as he is sent to serve in the Falklands'”, in Daily Mail:

     Over the weekend the Duke and Duchess have been enjoying a ‘mini-moon’ at a mystery location in the UK. They flew in the Queen’s helicopter from Buckingham Palace on Saturday for a two-night break.

   • 2012 September 9, Dean Piper, “On the grapevine”, in Sunday Mirror, UK:

     The pair will then enjoy a "mini-moon" ahead of Dermot starting his live X Factor shows.

   • 2024 September, Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, “A Two-month Mini-moon: 2024 PT₅ Captured by Earth from September to November”, in Research Notes of the AAS‎^[1], American Astronomical Society, →DOI:

     Here, we show that the recently discovered small body 2024 PT₅ follows a horseshoe path and it will become a mini-moon in 2024, from September 29 until November 25.

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