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Definition of Moonlight
1. Verb. Work a second job, usually after hours. "The law student is moonlighting as a taxi driver"
2. Noun. The light of the Moon. "The Moon was bright enough to read by"
Generic synonyms: Light, Visible Light, Visible Radiation
Terms within: Moon Ray, Moon-ray, Moonbeam
Derivative terms: Moony
Definition of Moonlight
1. n. The light of the moon.
Definition of Moonlight
1. Noun. The light reflected from the moon.''Webster's College Dictionary'', Random House, 2001 ¹
2. Noun. (context: attributive) Illuminated by the light from the moon.''The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary'', Oxford University Press, 1998 ¹
3. Verb. To work at a secondary job, often in the evening or during the night. In American English, simply secondary employment,Mish, Drederick C. (ed.). 1995. ''Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.'' 10th ed. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster. but in British English implying working secretly (i.e., not paying tax on the extra money earned).Treffry, Diana (ed.). 1999. ''Collins Paperback English Dictionary.'' 4th ed. Glasgow: HarperCollins. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Moonlight
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moonlight
Literary usage of Moonlight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1921)
"Moonlight SCHOOLS From red brush uplands, thatched with sassafras, And fields of
broom-sage comes a motley class Of uncouth young and wizened old, in rough, ..."
2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1803)
"NIGHT AND Moonlight CHANCING to take a memorable walk by moonlight some years
ago, I resolved to take more such walks, and make acquaintance with another ..."
3. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"CHAPTER V THROUGH THE Moonlight The next evening the mummers were assembled in
the same spot, awaiting the entrance of the Turkish Knight. ..."
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