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How to pronounce “moonlight”
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Pronunciation guide for moonlight
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of moonlight with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Beethoven Live Performance
[MUSIC - BEETHOVEN, "THE MOONLIGHT SONATA"]
- Definition summary
- (uncountable, also attributive) The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce moonlight
Beethoven Live Performance
[MUSIC - BEETHOVEN, "THE MOONLIGHT SONATA"]
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “moonlight”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable, also attributive) The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it.
- (uncountable, archaic) The silvery colour of the light reflected by the Moon.
- (uncountable, UK, dialectal, archaic) Synonym of moonshine (“illegally produced or smuggled spirits”).
- (countable, informal) 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”).
- (countable, obsolete)
- [Verb]
- (intransitive)
- (transitive, Ireland, historical, passive voice) (Of a tenant farmer) to be attacked for not supporting the policies of the Irish National Land League.
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