# moonlighted

Pronunciation: say "MOON-lyt-id" /ˈmunˌlaɪtɪd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of moonlight. — simple past and past participle of moonlight
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of moonlight. Use it for something that happened earlier, or after "has" or "had".
   - _Before writing full-time, the novelist moonlighted as an advertising copywriter._
   - _Researchers found that the enzyme moonlighted as a structural protein inside the cell._

## Adjective

2. Lit by the light of the moon.
   - Simple: Lit up by the light of the moon at night.
   - _From the porch they could see the moonlighted fields stretching to the tree line._
   - _A fox slipped across the moonlighted yard and vanished under the fence._

## Origin

**Meaning 2** — Formed from moon + lighted.
**Meaning 1** — Formed from moonlight + the suffix -ed.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/moonlighted (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).