Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The track of moonlight on water.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Poetic The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water.

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  • noun poetic, rare The bright reflection of moonlight on a body of water.

Etymologies

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From moon +‎ glade

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Examples

  • A moonglade is the track the full moon makes on the water when it is rising from the sea, you know, teacher.

    Anne of Avonlea 1909

  • A moonglade is the track the full moon makes on the water when it is rising from the sea, you know, teacher.

    Anne of Avonlea 1908

  • A moonglade is the track the full moon makes on the water when it is rising from the sea, you know.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 1908

  • English Dictionary, reported that the word requested already exists: moonglade.

    Word Fugitives 2006

  • English Dictionary, reported that the word requested already exists: moonglade.

    Word Fugitives 2006

  • Coming to the staircase, she sat down on the top step and gazed out at the moonglade reflection on the lagoon.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Coming to the staircase, she sat down on the top step and gazed out at the moonglade reflection on the lagoon.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • They were as beautiful as the sunset on the mountains, as the moonglade on the sea, as the morning mist rising from the valleys.

    Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995

  • He walked down to the water's edge and stood alone to watch the moonglade dancing in the surf.

    Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

  • Hanno recognized Pytheas 'profile against quicksilver moonglade and went to join him.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

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  • moonglade – the track made by moonlight on water

    July 27, 2008

  • Also called moonpath.

    August 10, 2008

  • How 'bout moonshine? :o)

    November 22, 2009