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Definition of Moonlit
1. Adjective. Lighted by moonlight. "The moonlit landscape"
Definition of Moonlit
1. a. Illumined by the moon.
Definition of Moonlit
1. Adjective. Lit by moonlight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Moonlit
1. lighted by the moon [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moonlit
Literary usage of Moonlit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1851)
"As softly seen in aerial light, The starry paths of moonlit power ? ... But moonlit
paths are as night dreams; And dreams of life are colder still, ..."
2. The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the Chief Poet by Charles Anderson Read, Thomas Power O'Connor (1893)
"A moonlit NIGHT. As on a moonlit night when Neptune calls, His finny coursers
from their coral stalls; From some white clift, whose brow reflects the deep, ..."
3. Poems of the Plains, and Songs of the Solitudes: Together with "The Rhyme of by Thomas Brower Peacock, Thomas Danly Suplée (1888)
"ON THE moonlit WAVE. on the moonlit wave joyously we sail, My love and I, she
fondly by my side ; Our cheeks are fann'd by the gently-breathing gale, ..."
4. Kate Beaumont by John William De Forest (1872)
"It was a moonlit autumn evening, strangely summer-like for the season, when he
led Miss Beaumont on deck alone, ostensibly to take a walk with her, ..."
5. Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women by Thomas Young Crowell (1885)
"Waiting sad, dejected, weary, Waiting for the May : Spring goes hy with wasted
warnings, — moonlit evening i,sunbright mornings,— Summer comes, ..."
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