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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlit/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlit/#x1)
- The moonlit garden looked silver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlit/#x2)
- An owl flew across the moonlit sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlit/#x3)
- The castle stood dark on a moonlit hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlit/#x4)
- A moonlit night is good for spotting badgers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlit/#x5)
- The lake shone in the moonlit darkness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonlit/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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