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MOONLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moonless mean? 

MOONLESS (adjective)
  The adjective MOONLESS has 1 sense:

1. without a moon or a visible moonplay

  Familiarity information: MOONLESS used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOONLESS (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Without a moon or a visible moon

Context example:

a moonless planet

Antonym:

moonlit (lighted by moonlight)


 Context examples 


The night was moonless, but there were some stars, and one could see for a little distance across the plain.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How CH+ traces energy can be thought of by analogy to being on a boat in a tropical ocean on a dark, moonless night.

(ALMA Finds Huge Hidden Reservoirs of Turbulent Gas in Distant Galaxies, ESO)

There is a trap-door at the back of that building, near the corner of Paul’s Wharf, which could tell some strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless nights.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I promise you that you shall thrust your arms elbow-deep among good silver pieces ere the nights are moonless again; for on every hand of us are fair women, rich wine, and good plunder, as much as heart could wish.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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