Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The light reflected from the surface of the moon.
- intransitive verb To work at another job, often at night, in addition to one's full-time job.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The light of the moon.
- intransitive verb to work at a second job in addition to one's main occupation; -- often done at night.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb by extension To engage in an activity other than what one is known for.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb work a second job, usually after hours
- noun the light of the Moon
Etymologies
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Examples
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Reporting on a survey into the income and expenditure of young people in Guangzhou province, The China Daily spotlighted the term moonlight clan:
NYT > Home Page By BEN SCHOTT 2011
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Parmenides of Elea postulated that moonlight is reflected sunlight.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers Daniel Bruno Sanz 2010
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I spent some time beginning a painting of some trees in moonlight that had been on my mind.
Creative Every Day, Part 11: Recovery « Looking for Roots 2010
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Parmenides of Elea postulated that moonlight is reflected sunlight.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers Daniel Bruno Sanz 2010
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Rosy Hannah by moonlight is beauty's own self, and to be cut on wood is realy surprising.
Letter 65 2009
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Parmenides of Elea postulated that moonlight is reflected sunlight.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers Daniel Bruno Sanz 2010
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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.
Quick Links: Coraline Boxes and the Antikythera Mechanism Reborn Heather McDougal 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-12-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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We look at each other -- there's not much light, just moonlight from the window.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES -- NO U-HAULS, JUST BORROW A FRIEND'S TRUCK Maggie Jochild 2007
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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.
banui commented on the word moonlight
'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.
December 28, 2006
hernesheir commented on the word moonlight
Song played by ukulelists by Con Conrad.
September 22, 2009
Louises commented on the word moonlight
Moonlight blotched the forest floor, maternally soothed us when we moved through it. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 18, 2012