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Moonface

Moonface

1 9.4
A friendly character in Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree stories
  • proper noun
  • Literature
: Cara de Luna
  • Again, Battles and Moonface are the major omissions I would have liked to see, but I understand many thought the former lost some of their punch without Tyondai, and that the latter.
  • Moonface," he says

Examples

  • Moonface.

    Moon Students (2023)

  • "Sher, that's Moonface, isn't it?" she said, without looking up.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • I've known about Rachel York (who plays the character Reno Sweeney) and Fred Applegate's (who plays Moonface Martin) careers, and I'm learning so much from them.

    Blog text (9)

  • "Moonface, would you like to join us for an adventure in the Magic Faraway Tree?"

  • "As they entered the magical world, Moonface waved excitedly at his friends waiting below."

  • "The children laughed as they spotted Moonface peeking out from behind a bush in the enchanted forest."

Surface Forms

Moonface main

Morphology

Moonface = moon + face (transparent) = moon + face

The name is a clear compound of 'moon' + 'face'; learners who know those words can infer a meaning of a face associated with the moon, though here it functions as a character name.

Etymology

Moonface mixes moon ('the round object in the sky') and face ('the front of the head'). Enid Blyton used this name for a friendly character with a round, moon-like face in the Magic Faraway Tree, so the name helps you picture his round, cozy face.