moonbeam

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a ray or shaft of light from the moon

   A pale moonbeam crossed the floor through a gap in the curtains.

A compound of moon + beam. Beam, inherited from Old English beam, developed from the sense "tree or wooden bar" to a ray or shaft of light, producing moonbeam by the late Middle English period.

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