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# moonlight

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

«moonlight» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Moonlight is the light that comes from the Moon at night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlight/#m1)
2. To moonlight is to do a second job secretly or in your spare time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlight/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlight/#x1)
- We walked home by moonlight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlight/#x2)
- Moonlight is sunlight bouncing off the Moon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlight/#x3)
- The owl hunted in the moonlight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlight/#x4)
- The garden looked silver in the moonlight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlight/#x5)
- He moonlights as a taxi driver at weekends. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlight/#x6)
- I ran about the streets in the moonlight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlight/#x7)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «moonlight» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlight/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«moonlight» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/moonlight.html) on Mova free.