moonlit

«moonlit» in Mova's school dictionary: lit by the light of the Moon — 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

adjective (moonlit)

meaning for a pupil

Moonlit means lit by the light of the Moon. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in stories and poems to describe night scenes; it gives a calm, magical or sometimes spooky feeling.

examples

• We walked along the moonlit beach. tree →
• The moonlit garden looked silver. tree →
• An owl flew across the moonlit sky. tree →
• The castle stood dark on a moonlit hill. tree →
• A moonlit night is good for spotting badgers. tree →
• The lake shone in the moonlit darkness. tree →

note

One word: moon + lit. Only an adjective before a noun. Science fact: moonlight is really sunlight reflected by the Moon.

In the corpora

• Bright beach lights confuse turtle hatchlings, which crawl towards the lights instead of the moonlit sea.

Trees and pragmatics

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