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# moonshine

noun (no plural); also used as a verb in old use

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

## Everyday

1. Moonshine is the pale light of the moon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonshine/#m1)
2. (informal) Moonshine means nonsense or untrue talk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonshine/#m2)

### In the lessons

in fairy tales, the pale light in which elves dance, or an elf king asks to stand; in casual talk, «that's moonshine» means it is nonsense

### Examples

- They danced hand in hand by the lake in the moonshine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonshine/#x1)
- Stand in the moonshine and wait for the elves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonshine/#x2)
- "Don't talk moonshine," said Mum when I told her about the dragon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonshine/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

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