Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to moonlight
Participle: moonlighted
Gerund: moonlighting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | moonlight |
| you | moonlight |
| he;she;it | moonlights |
| we | moonlight |
| you | moonlight |
| they | moonlight |
Perfect
| I | have moonlighted |
| you | have moonlighted |
| he;she;it | has moonlighted |
| we | have moonlighted |
| you | have moonlighted |
| they | have moonlighted |
Past
| I | moonlighted |
| you | moonlighted |
| he;she;it | moonlighted |
| we | moonlighted |
| you | moonlighted |
| they | moonlighted |
Pluperfect
| I | had moonlighted |
| you | had moonlighted |
| he;she;it | had moonlighted |
| we | had moonlighted |
| you | had moonlighted |
| they | had moonlighted |
Future
| I | will moonlight |
| you | will moonlight |
| he;she;it | will moonlight |
| we | will moonlight |
| you | will moonlight |
| they | will moonlight |
Future Perfect
| I | will have moonlighted |
| you | will have moonlighted |
| he;she;it | will have moonlighted |
| we | will have moonlighted |
| you | will have moonlighted |
| they | will have moonlighted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | moonlight |
| you | moonlight |
| he;she;it | moonlight |
| we | moonlight |
| you | moonlight |
| they | moonlight |
Perfect
| I | have moonlighted |
| you | have moonlighted |
| he;she;it | have moonlighted |
| we | have moonlighted |
| you | have moonlighted |
| they | have moonlighted |
Imperfect
| I | moonlighted |
| you | moonlighted |
| he;she;it | moonlighted |
| we | moonlighted |
| you | moonlighted |
| they | moonlighted |
Pluperfect
| I | had moonlighted |
| you | had moonlighted |
| he;she;it | had moonlighted |
| we | had moonlighted |
| you | had moonlighted |
| they | had moonlighted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would moonlight |
| you | would moonlight |
| he;she;it | would moonlight |
| we | would moonlight |
| you | would moonlight |
| they | would moonlight |
Perfect
| I | would have moonlighted |
| you | would have moonlighted |
| he;she;it | would have moonlighted |
| we | would have moonlighted |
| you | would have moonlighted |
| they | would have moonlighted |
Imperative
| you | moonlight |
| we | Let's moonlight |
| you | moonlight |
Verbs conjugated like 'moonlight'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'moonlight'
downlight,
enlight,
inlight,
lowlight,
mislight,
onsight,
spotlight,
sunlight,
alight,
backlight,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s
4. Proto-Germanic *mēnô
5. Proto-West Germanic *mānō
6. Old English mōna
7. Middle English mone
8. Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
9. Proto-Indo-European *lewk-to-s
10. Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
11. Proto-West Germanic *leuht
12. Old English lēoht
13. Middle English light
14. Middle English moonelight
15. English moonlight
16. 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”)) + light (“light”) (from Old English lēoht (“light”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)). By surface analysis, moon + light.
17. The verb is derived from the noun. Verb sense 1.1 (“to secretly leave premises without paying the rent”) is a back-formation from moonlight flit, while verb sense 1.2 (“to make a night-time attack on a tenant farmer”) is probably a back-formation from moonlighter.
18. cognates
19. * Dutch maanlicht
20. * German Mondlicht
21. * Scots muinlicht, munelicht
22. * West Frisian moanneljocht See: Scots '
muinlicht'.
Sample Sentences
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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. [2004 July, Richard Porter, Paul Kerensa, “MPVs as Minicabs” (00:22:29 from the start), in Top Gear, season 4, episode 7, spoken by James May, London, via BBC Two, →OCLC:]
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Investigators discover that Captain Ospina was forced to take a second job, moonlighting in a bar, in order to make ends meet for his family. [2011 August 19, Carl Knutson, “The Plane that Flew too High” (41:00 from the start), in Mayday: Air Disaster, season 11, episode 2, spoken by Jonathan Aris, Montreal, Que.: Cineflix Media, →OCLC:]
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Believing the bones to belong to a cave bear, the quarry owner passed them on to a local schoolteacher, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, who moonlighted as a fossilist. [2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, “The Madness Gene”, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 240:]
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Mr. [Jeffrey] Katzenberg, who moonlights as a top [Joe] Biden official and has worked with Mr. [George] Clooney on philanthropy for decades, reached out to him to see if there was an off-ramp, according to three people familiar with the matter. [2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2025:]
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Some proteins have a primary function of acting as enzymes, but moonlight by carrying out secondary roles such as signal transduction or transcriptional regulation.