moonbeam

English

Etymology

In Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream 1590. Compound of moon +‎ beam.

Noun

moonbeam (plural moonbeams)

1. A shaft of moonlight.
   • 1850, Lydia Sigourney, The Brother from Poems for the Sea, page 70:

     A moonbeam pierced the heavy cloud!

2. Moonlight generally.
3. Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus .

Synonyms

• moon ray

Translations

shaft of moonlight

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 月光 (zh) (yuèguāng)

• Finnish: kuunsäde (fi)
• German: Mondstrahl m
• Hungarian: holdsugár (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 月光 (ja) (がっこう, gakkō, げっこう, gekkō)
• Korean: 달의 광선 (darui gwangseon)
• Polish: promień księżyca
• Russian: лу́нный луч m (lúnnyj luč), полоса́ лу́нного све́та f (polosá lúnnovo svéta)
• Tagalog: sinag ng buwan

moonlight generally — see moonlight

See also

• sunbeam