Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The light reflected from the surface of the moon.
- v. Informal To work at another job, often at night, in addition to one's full-time job.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The light afforded by the moon; sunlight reflected from the surface of the moon.
- Pertaining to moonlight; illuminated by the moon; occurring during or by moonlight.
Wiktionary
- n. The light reflected from the moon.Webster's College Dictionary, Random House, 2001
- n. Illuminated by the light from the moon.The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1998
- v. To work at a secondary job, usually in the evening or during the night, often secretly, so that one doesn't have to pay tax on the extra money earned.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The light of the moon.
- v. to work at a second job in addition to one's main occupation; -- often done at night.
WordNet 3.0
- v. work a second job, usually after hours
- n. the light of the Moon
Examples
“Reporting on a survey into the income and expenditure of young people in Guangzhou province, The China Daily spotlighted the term moonlight clan:”
“Parmenides of Elea postulated that moonlight is reflected sunlight.”
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“I spent some time beginning a painting of some trees in moonlight that had been on my mind.”
“Rosy Hannah by moonlight is beauty's own self, and to be cut on wood is realy surprising.”
“So often you get someone working at Pixar or someplace whose whole world, for awhile, is to make fur moving in moonlight; but you never actually meet these people.”
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“We look at each other -- there's not much light, just moonlight from the window.”
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“Audiences may laugh as a post-coital scene, set amid the flowers in moonlight, soars into a Morricone-esque musical riff with a chorus of women's voices trilling non-verbal notes, the art house equivalent of Dimitri Tiomkin telling us how to feel.”
“They hung above him in the dark, outlined in moonlight from the open doorway.”
“The small-paned windows were outlined in moonlight on the floor by the rug's edge.”
“The, family motto, loosely translated from the Latin, reads, "There'll be moonlight again," not, let me make it clear for the purpose with which moonlight is sometimes associated, but because only with a full moon could they ride the rough tracks through the wild border hills, seek out the English cattle and safely drive them home.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘moonlight’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 1128 more...
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MissEasyBreezy's list
enthasy, euphoria, fantasy, spellbind, neurotic, ecstatic, radiance, aura, innocence, glitter, glow, aurora and 26 more...
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Verbages
puddle, kowtow, tessellate, defalcate, embezzle, enkindle, ablate, frivol, moonlight, tongue-tie, gobble, pettifog and 8 more...
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Double Letter words
Here is a list of Double Letter Words! Everyone is welcome to add some more words if needed!
bubbles, gallop, wheel, follow, grasshopper, bunny, rabbit, summer, groovy, puppy, fitness, greetings and 65 more...
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Earth-Friendly Organic Produce
An Ecosystem of earth/life-related words.
blueskycloudform, sojourn, reuse, reduce, compostable, habitat, ecology, bionomics, Eco-Art, sustainability, forest garden, biosystems and 47 more...
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More Light!
light, lamp, Betty lamp, lightbulb, floor lamp, lantern, candle, gas mantle, Davy lamp, Geordie lamp, limelight, spotlight and 48 more...
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Ukulele Chestnuts
List of songs from the "canon" of ukulele music, starting with Joe Burke and Al Dubin's 1926 classic, "Tip-toe, Through the Tulips. No madeupicals on this list, please, my Wordie Brudahs, Sistahs,...
tip-toe through t..., aloha ‘oe, ain’t she sweet, when i’m cleaning..., five foot two, ey..., i’ll see you in m..., tonight you belon..., ukulele lady, somewhere over th..., stars and stripes..., while my guitar g..., 12th street rag and 18 more...
Louises Moonlight blotched the forest floor, maternally soothed us when we moved through it. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 18, 2012
hernesheir Song played by ukulelists by Con Conrad. Sep 21, 2009
banui 'Moon' itself is already such a beautiful & exquisite word in itself; add another delectable combination of letters--'light', which glides across the tongue and throat like the very substance it names--and it is pure ecstacy. There are few words that suggest more enchantment than 'moonlight', although it can be tremendously overused. Dec 27, 2006