MOONLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moonlight mean? 

• MOONLIGHT (noun)
  The noun MOONLIGHT has 1 sense:

1. the light of the Moon

  Familiarity information: MOONLIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

• MOONLIGHT (verb)
  The verb MOONLIGHT has 1 sense:

1. work a second job, usually after hours

  Familiarity information: MOONLIGHT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOONLIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The light of the Moon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

Moon; moonlight; moonshine

Context example:

the Moon was bright enough to read by

Hypernyms ("moonlight" is a kind of...):

light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)

Meronyms (parts of "moonlight"):

moon-ray; moon ray; moonbeam (a ray of moonlight)

• MOONLIGHT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they moonlight    ... he / she / it moonlights   
Past simple: moonlighted   
Past participle: moonlighted   
-ing form: moonlighting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work a second job, usually after hours

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

The law student is moonlighting as a taxi driver

Hypernyms (to "moonlight" is one way to...):

do work; work (be employed)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

moonlighter (a person who holds a second job (usually after hours))

 Context examples 

As they slid along, noiseless as shadows, in the moonlight, they came upon a run-way.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was now near enough for us to see clearly, and the moonlight still held.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The one candle was dying out: the room was full of moonlight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the great moonlight clearings I slunk along among the shadows on the margin.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Held by the palings. Cried. But, Trotwood, come here,” getting me close to him, that he might whisper very softly; “why did she give him money, boy, in the moonlight?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He seemed to remember it all,—the white woods, and earth, and moonlight, and the thrill of battle.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He had been to several families that morning in hopes of procuring some addition to their number, but it was moonlight and every body was full of engagements.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was a week after he cured her headache that a moonlight sail on Lake Merritt was proposed by Norman and seconded by Arthur and Olney.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The full moon appears that much larger in diameter and because it is larger shines 30 percent more moonlight onto the Earth.

(November Supermoon a Spectacular Sight, NASA)

Jim sprang after it, and I was left half-fainting in the moonlight.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)