moonlight

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the light of the Moon

   moonlight is the smuggler's enemy

2. 2
   verb

   work a second job, usually after hours

   The law student is moonlighting as a taxi driver

3. 3
   noun

   The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it.

   Meronym: moonbeam

4. 4
   noun

   Synonym of moonshine (“illegally produced or smuggled spirits”).

   Barter'd for game from chace or warren won, / Yon cask holds moonlight, run when moon was none; / And late-snatch'd spoils lie stow'd in hutch apart, / To wait the associate higgler's evening cart.

5. 5
   verb

   To do work for pay (sometimes illegally, secretly, or without paying income tax on the earnings) which is in addition to a main job, often in the evening or at night.

   There are three individual rear seats. They all slide, they all fold, or they can all be removed completely, so that you can moonlight as a van.

6. 6
   noun

   The silvery colour of the light reflected by the Moon.

7. 7
   noun

   Chiefly in to do a moonlight: short for moonlight flit (“an act of secretly leaving premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon; hence, any act of escaping at night”).

8. 8
   noun

   A picture of a scene illuminated by light reflected by the Moon.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s Proto-Germanic *mēnô Proto-West Germanic *mānō Old English mōna Middle English mone Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der. Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz Proto-West Germanic *leuht Old English lēoht Middle English light Middle English moonelight English moonlight The noun is derived from Middle English moonelight, monelight, mone lyght (“light of the moon; (heraldry) pattern of moons on the field of a heraldic banner”), from mon, mone (“moon”) (from Old English mōna (“moon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon; month”))…