moon-beam
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The silence of the place; the pale waves of the Tiber, the moon-beams, which shed their mild radiance upon the statues placed on the bridge, and gave to those statues the appearance of white spectres, steadfastly regarding the current of the waters, and that of time, which no longer concerned them; […]"
- "Were there no stockings of Zetland wool soft enough for these pretty feet and ancles, that glance so white in the moon-beam?"
- "Andersen (Orient. Reise-Beschreib. i. 8) refers to an effect, which he says is common, and which he had often seen, of sleeping in the moon-beams, of making the neck stiff, so that it could not be turned from side to side as before."