moonless

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Adj.

moonless - without a moon or a visible moon; "the dark moonless night"; "a moonless planet"

moonlit, moony - lighted by moonlight; "the moonlit landscape"

Translations

مُعْتِمه، لا يَظْهَر القَمَرُ فيها

bezměsíčný

måneløs

mondlos

ekki tunglbjartur

uten måneskinn

bezmesačný

aysızmehtapsız

无月光的

moonless

[ˈmuːnlɪs] ADJ → sin luna

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

moonless

[ˈmuːnləs] adj → sans lune

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moon

(muːn) noun

1. the heavenly body that moves once round the earth in a month and reflects light from the sun. The moon was shining brightly; Spacemen landed on the moon.

2. any of the similar bodies moving round the other planets. the moons of Jupiter.

ˈmoonless adjective

(of a night) dark and having no moonlight.

ˈmoonbeam noun

a beam of light reflected from the moon.

ˈmoonlight noun, adjective

(made with the help of) the light reflected by the moon. The sea looked silver in the moonlight; a moonlight raid.

verb

to work at a second job, often at night, in addition to one's regular job. He earns so little that he has to moonlight.

moonlighting noun

ˈmoonlit adjective

lit by the moon. a moonlit hillside.

moon about/around

to wander around as if dazed, eg because one is in love.

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A slight wind was moving amongst the treetops, the night was clear but moonless. About half a mile away they could just discern a corner of the club-house.

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His vessel was chased for days by three of the Zodangan war ships but finally escaped during the darkness of a moonless night.

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The canal beneath the window looked like a black gulf; the opposite houses were barely visible as a row of shadows, dimly relieved against the starless and moonless sky.

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"My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary; Long is the way, and the mountains are wild; Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary Over the path of the poor orphan child.

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The latter dismounted, took the leaders by the bridle, and led them over the velvet sward and the mossy grass of a winding alley, at the bottom of which, on this moonless night, the deep shades formed a curtain blacker than ink.

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Not until the camp was wrapped in the quiet of slumber did Sing Lee return--stealthy and mysterious--to creep under cover of a moonless night to the door of the workshop.

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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."

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Dimly through the darkness of a moonless night he saw the awful blackness of the jungle, yet it touched no responsive chord of terror within him now as it had done in the past.

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At length night came, a moonless night, a dark night.

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It was a moonless night, but the light of the stars was sufficient to show the outline of the young woman's form, and the shape of her face gazing gravely, indeed almost sternly, into the sky.

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The glossy mass of her jet hair had been built into a coiffure of stately and becoming grandeur, into which diamond-headed pins were stuck until the whole scintillated as the stars in heaven upon a moonless night.

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The coffin was forced, the cerements torn, and the melancholy relics, clad in sackcloth, after being rattled for hours on moonless byways, were at length exposed to uttermost indignities before a class of gaping boys.