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Lunarian

/luːˈnɛəɹi.ən/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A member of the New York Science Fiction Society.
  2. Pertaining to the inhabitants of Luna (Lunarians).
  3. A maritime navigator who uses the Moon to determine longitude without the need for an accurate clock.
  4. An inhabitant of Earth's Moon (Luna): either an indigenous one or a human one.

Etymology / origin

From the stem of Latin lūnāris (“of the moon, lunar”) + -ian. By surface analysis, Lunar + -ian.

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