MOONLIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moonlit mean? 

• MOONLIT (adjective)
  The adjective MOONLIT has 1 sense:

1. lighted by moonlight

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOONLIT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lighted by moonlight

Synonyms:

moonlit; moony

Context example:

the moonlit landscape

Antonym:

moonless (without a moon or a visible moon)

 Context examples 

“I think that I can see them yet,” said Ford, peering down the moonlit road.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He passed out of the forest and into the moonlit open where were no shadows nor darknesses.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

As they turned to the car Holmes pointed back to the moonlit sea and shook a thoughtful head.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With my knees shaking beneath me, I stood and glared with starting eyes down the moonlit path which lay behind me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then came a heavy blow, and down he fell in the middle of the moonlit road, flapping and jumping among the dust like a trout new landed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This time, as the distance was short, I did not mount, but ran with Dogger's stirrup-leather to the lodge gates and up the long, leafless, moonlit avenue to where the white line of the hall buildings looked on either hand on great old gardens.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When I saw my charmer thus come in accompanied by a cavalier, I seemed to hear a hiss, and the green snake of jealousy, rising on undulating coils from the moonlit balcony, glided within my waistcoat, and ate its way in two minutes to my heart's core.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Through the trees the mouth of the alley could be seen, opening out on a moonlit glade.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The Lady Tiphaine and her spouse sprang upon their steeds without setting feet to stirrup, and away they jingled down the white moonlit highway, with Sir Nigel at the lady's bridle-arm, and Ford a spear's length behind them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)