The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points. / A curved pastry.

(dated, rare) marked by an increase; waxing, like the Moon. / Shaped like a crescent.

(transitive) To form a crescent shape / (transitive) To decorate with crescents.

plural of crescent

Growing, increasing, gaining size, etc. / Crescent-shaped.

present participle of crescent

simple past tense and past participle of crescent

(historical) A crescent-shaped strip of fertile land stretching from present-day Iraq through eastern Turkey and down the Syrian and Israeli coasts.

A branch of the Red Cross that operates in Muslim countries. / The symbol of this branch.

A fictional game of complicated strategy in which players move around a map of the London Underground. / A street in London (named after the Earl of Mornington) after which the tube station was named.