- the light of the moon
- to go for a walk by moonlight/in the moonlight
- The floor was dappled with pale moonlight.
Extra ExamplesTopics Spaceb1- The castle looks fantastic by moonlight.
- The fields were bathed in bright moonlight that night.
- The moonlight hit her face perfectly.
- The pale moonlight danced across his skin.
- a single shaft of moonlight
- the faint moonlight filtering through the stained glass windows
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- bright
- dim
- faint
- …
- shaft
- filter
- glint
- shine
- …
- by moonlight
- in the moonlight
- under the moonlight
- …
- be bathed in moonlight
- gleam, glint, shine, etc. in the moonlight
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Idioms
See moonlight in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarydo a (moonlight/midnight) flit
- (British English, informal) to leave a place suddenly and secretly, especially at night, usually in order to avoid paying money that you owe to somebody
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