Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Situated beneath the moon.
  • adjective Of this world; earthly.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated beneath the moon.
  • Hence Pertaining to this world; terrestrial; mundane; earthly; worldly: as, sublunary affairs.
  • noun Any worldly thing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Any worldly thing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Situated between the earth and the moon; sublunar or cislunar.
  • adjective Of this world (as opposed to heaven etc.); earthly, terrestrial.
  • noun obsolete Any worldly thing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective situated between the earth and the moon
  • adjective of this earth

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin sublūnāris : Latin sub-, sub- + Latin lūna, moon; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.]

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From sub- +‎ lunary.

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  • (adjective) - (1) Anything under the orb of the moon.

    --Thomas Dyche's New General English Dictionary, 1740

    (2) Lying between the orbit of the moon and the earth; hence, subject to the moon's influence. Belonging to this world; mundane; temporal; ephemeral.

    --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1914

    January 21, 2018