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# 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 →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlight/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- [Sunlight takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach the Earth and moonlight about 1.3 seconds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «moonlight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.