moonlight

«moonlight» in Mova's school dictionary: the light that comes from the Moon at night — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (moonlight, uncountable); verb (moonlight, moonlights, moonlighted, moonlighting — informal)

meaning for a pupil

1) Moonlight is the light that comes from the Moon at night. tree →

2) To moonlight is to do a second job secretly or in your spare time. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, moonlight is really sunlight reflected off the Moon; the Moon does not make its own light. In stories and poems, moonlight makes scenes calm, magical or spooky. Phrases: "by moonlight", "in the moonlight", "a moonlight walk".

examples

• The lake shone in the moonlight. tree →
• We walked home by moonlight. tree →
• Moonlight is sunlight bouncing off the Moon. tree →
• The owl hunted in the moonlight. tree →
• The garden looked silver in the moonlight. tree →
• He moonlights as a taxi driver at weekends. tree →
• I ran about the streets in the moonlight. tree →

note

Uncountable. The verb past is "moonlighted", not "moonlit". "Moonlit" is an adjective: a moonlit night. Myth: the Moon does not glow by itself.

In the corpora

• Sunlight takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach the Earth and moonlight about 1.3 seconds.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «moonlight» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.