Synonyms for moonlight

Grammar : Noun

Spell : moon-lahyt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmunˌlaɪt

Définition of moonlight

Origin : "hold a second job, especially at night," 1957 (implied in moonlighting), from moonlighter (1954), from the notion of working by the light of the moon; see moonlight (n.). Related: Moonlighting. Earlier the word had been used to mean "commit crimes at night" (1882).

noun moonshine

Example sentences :

It was now a bright rectangle filled with moonlight and quite empty.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

His hands went up, and he stood gasping faintly in the moonlight.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

And he saw them turn one by one toward him in the moonlight and wait.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

He spoke with a gasping voice, and his face flushed crimson in the moonlight.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

On a moonlight night in August, at the hour of the first watch, the march began.
Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell

We could see the shafts of the darts fast in the cleft, bristling in the moonlight.
Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin

Methinks she will fade into the moonlight, which falls upon her through the window.
Extract from : « Sylph Etherege » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Some faces show more plainly in the moonlight, or one imagines so.
Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various

For at first she only perceived that a dim shadow was moving under the moonlight.
Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola

They made a picture in the moonlight that was more different than any picture I ever see.
Extract from : « Tom Sawyer Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

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