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MOONLIGHT
Definition of MOONLIGHT
noun
The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it.
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Where it comes from
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. 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.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,623)
How it is built
Same root, MOONLIGHT · 3 relatives in the game
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MOONLIGHT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 37 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MOONLIGHT starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read GHILMNOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start MOONLI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
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