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# moonshine

«moonshine» in Mova's school dictionary: **the pale light of the moon** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Moonshine is the pale light of the moon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonshine/#m1)

2) (informal) Moonshine means nonsense or untrue talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonshine/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonshine/#x1)
- Stand in the moonshine and wait for the elves. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moonshine/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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