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moonlight
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Noun moonlight has 1 sense
- moonlight(n = noun.phenomenon) moon, moonshine - the light of the Moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"; "the Moon was bright enough to read by" is a kind of light, visible light, visible radiation
has parts: moon-ray, moon ray, moonbeam
Verb moonlight has 1 sense
- moonlight(v = verb.social) Array - work a second job, usually after hours; "The law student is moonlighting as a taxi driver" is one way to do work, work
Derived form noun moonlighter1
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moonlight, n.
The light of the moon. [1913 Webster]
moonlight, v. i.
to work at a second job in addition to one's main occupation; -- often done at night. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
moonlight, n. & v.
--n.
1 the light of the moon.
2 (attrib.) lighted by the moon.
--v.intr. (-lighted) colloq. have two paid occupations, esp. one by day and one by night.
--n.
1 the light of the moon.
2 (attrib.) lighted by the moon.
--v.intr. (-lighted) colloq. have two paid occupations, esp. one by day and one by night.
Idiom
moonlight flit a hurried departure by night, esp. to avoid paying a debt.
Derivative
moonlighter n.
THESAURUS
moonlight
be employed, bootleg, brew, carry on business, distill, do business, follow a trade, have a job, keep up, labor, moonbeam, moonglow, moonshine, practice a profession, set up shop, stay employed, toil, transact business, work, work at, work forROGET THESAURUS
moonlight
Light
N light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil, sunbeam, moonbeam, aurora, day, sunshine, light of day, light of heaven, moonlight, starlight, sunlight, daylight, broad daylight, noontide light, noontide, noonday, noonday sun, glow, glimmering, glint, play of light, flood of light, phosphorescence, lambent flame, flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola, spark, scintilla, facula, sparkling, emication, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration, flame, lightning, levin, ignis fatuus, luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion, reflection, gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor, effulgence, refulgence, fulgor, fulgidity, dazzlement, resplendence, transplendency, luminousness, luminosity, lucidity, renitency, nitency, radiance, radiation, irradiation, illumination, actinic rays, actinism, Roentgen-ray, Xray, photography, heliography, photometer, optics, photology, photometry, dioptrics, catoptrics, chiaroscuro, clairobscur, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality, reflection, refraction, dispersion, refractivity, shining, luminous, luminiferous, lucid, lucent, luculent, lucific, luciferous, light, lightsome, bright, vivid, splendent, nitid, lustrous, shiny, beamy, scintillant, radiant, lambent, sheen, sheeny, glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian, noonday, tide, cloudless, clear, unclouded, unobscured, gairish, garish, resplendent, transplendent, refulgent, effulgent, fulgid, fulgent, relucent, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant, meteoric, phosphorescent, aglow, bright as silver, light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday, actinic, photogenic, graphic, heliographic, heliophagous, a day for gods to stoop and men to soar, dark with excessive bright.Dimness
N dimness, darkness, paleness, half light, demi-jour, partial shadow, partial eclipse, shadow of a shade, glimmer, gliming, nebulosity, cloud, eclipse, aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time, break of day, daybreak, dawn, moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade, moonshine, starlight, owl's light, candlelight, rushlight, firelight, farthing candle, dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark, faint, shadowed forth, glassy, cloudy, misty, blear, muggy, fuliginous, nebulous, nebular, obnubilated, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty, looming, pale, confused.
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