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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
moonlit
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
night
▪ In less than a minute the little band of rabbits had disappeared into the dim, moonlit night. 5.
▪ The only one who might come out on moonlit nights and glide around, unsettled, is Rose, wanting some attention.
▪ She got ready for bed and then stood on the balcony looking at the moonlit night and the mountains.
▪ You experienced a moonlit night with an intensity never experienced before?
▪ But one moonlit night, when the aging Oriental Fedallah is in the lookout, a silvery jet is seen far ahead.
▪ It was a bright moonlit night and frost glistened on the rooftops.
▪ One moonlit night they enjoyed a barbecue in a bay on the coast of Ithaca.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a moonlit garden
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At four, he awoke exhausted, and lay staring at his moonlit window until dawn.
▪ He stood on the moonlit grass, swaying slightly, holding himself upright but still fast asleep.
▪ Later, she stood alone at her bedroom window, looking out at the moonlit sea.
▪ She peered out into the moonlit garden and felt a wave of desperation sweep over her.
▪ She turned to him, and held his face on their moonlit pillow.
▪ There, some twenty paces away across the moonlit clearing, was a crouched figure pointing a shotgun straight at them.
▪ With Richard, I wanted moonlit dinners, and what did I get?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moonlit

Moonlit \Moon"lit`\, a. Illumined by the moon. ``The moonlit sea.''
--Moore. ``Moonlit dells.''
--Lowell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
moonlit

1830 (first attested in Tennyson), from moon (n.) + lit.

Wiktionary
moonlit

a. (senseid en lit by moonlight)Lit by moonlight.

WordNet
moonlit

adj. lighted by moonlight; "the moonlit landscape" [syn: moony] [ant: moonless]

Usage examples of "moonlit".

Prince Brian stood looking out from the battlement at the moonlit meadow below, while Brewster sat smoking his pipe.

Even when these sounds had faded into silence, she remained where she was, hoping that Melia might fall asleep, so that she could enter the hut they shared unheard and unquestioned, but finally pain and thirst overcame her scruples and she staggered dazedly across the moonlit clearing, seeking the only sanctuary she knew.

She followed the merman, noticing how in the moonlit water the orange and gold of his tail glistened like it glowed magically from within.

Palaisso Millia Luminnai, and kissed her in the moonlit gardenshe could see that, too, from the sparkle of his epalettos to the coronet of a Princess of Ghillas that bound her hair.

He was reiving on one policeman whose name he did not know, on a moonlit road thirty miles away from him.

Damien thought as he peered from his living room bay window, regarding the moonlit valley that ran past the Sandia Mountains as if it were all his very own.

The vale that was scooped out between the fells flattened, and they walked easily across moonlit pastures.

Somnambulistically Silvester had walked through the woods and up a moonlit meadow.

In this chair, wrapped in his cloak, he spent the long moonlit night, rising at every bell to walk along the gangway to the forecastle and out along the bowsprit to peer at the Spartan with his night-glass between the spritsail course and its topsail.

TV jumped to a 24-hour satellite starward of Terra and showed us the whole moonlit Earth backed by the Milky Way, as if snared by a diamond-dewy spiderweb.

Moonlit Eyes Station was abustle with people, many of them in uniform.

Beyond the ribbon of mist that hung over the river the moonlit Bessarabian shore seemed quite near.

But as Dioniso took a late-night stroll to clear the final brushstrokes of Princess Prune from his head, he witnessed an affecting moonlit scene in the private royal garden.

The half-lit Planting Moon did not rise until I had nearly reached Cranshaw, and I wondered if Claire had factored the time of its rise into her plans, waiting for days to order me there so I would walk through black forest to a secret moonlit meeting, feeling surreptitious and fraudulent in the night.

It was already early evening, and the sun was sinking in the reddened west, but the sky was cloudless and Bappoo was anticipating the joys of a moonlit hunt across the flat Deccan Plain.