Crescent
11crescent — Crescent, Le Crescent, ou croissant de la Lune, Meniscus, Luna bicornis, vel crescens. voyez Croissant …
12Crescent [1] — Crescent, Insel, zum Paumotu Archipel od. Niedrigen Inseln (südöstliches Polynesien) gehörig, sehr flach, bewaldet, von Klippen umgeben, von Malaien bewohnt …
13Crescent [2] — Crescent, in den englischen Städten eine Menge, in Form eines halben eingehenden Monds zusammengebauter Häuser u. Paläste …
14Crescent — (kressent), engl., die in Halbmondform zusammengebauten Complexhäuser in engl. Städten …
15crescent — ► NOUN 1) the curved sickle shape of the waxing or waning moon. 2) a thing of this shape, in particular a street or terrace of houses forming an arc. ORIGIN from Latin crescere grow …
16Crescent — For other uses, see Crescent (disambiguation). An example of an artistic crescent in this case a large circle with a smaller one removed …
17Crescent — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Crescent ou Crescens et Crescentien, est un nom propre ou nom commun qui peut désigner : Sommaire 1 Nom commun …
18crescent — crescentic /kri sen tik/, adj. /kres euhnt/, n. 1. a shape resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends. 2. something, as a roll or cookie, having this shape. 3. Astron. a. the figure of the moon in its first or last quarter,… …
19crescent — [14] Crescent is one of a wide range of words (including create, crescendo, concrete, crew, accretion, croissant, increase, and recruit) bequeathed to English by the Latin verb crēscere ‘grow’. In the case of crescent, it came in the form of the… …
20crescent — [[t]kre̱s(ə)nt, kre̱z [/t]] crescents 1) N COUNT A crescent is a curved shape that is wider in the middle than at its ends, like the shape of the moon during its first and last quarters. It is the most important symbol of the Islamic faith. A… …
