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1. (n.) twilight
the soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, either from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall.
2. twilight
the period in the morning or, more commonly, in the evening during which this light prevails.
3. twilight
a terminal period, esp. after full development, success, etc.
4. twilight
a state of uncertainty, vagueness, or gloom.
5. (adj.) twilight
of or resembling twilight; dim; obscure.
Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME; see twi-, light1)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
the time of day immediately following sunset
"he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
2. (noun) twilight
the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
3. (adj) twilight
a condition of decline following successes
"in the twilight of the empire"
4. (adj) dusky, twilight(a), twilit
lighted by or as if by twilight
"The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
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1. (noun) twilight
the time just after the sun has set
Fires glowed in the twilight.; She called the kids at twilight.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) Twilight
seen or done by twilight
2. (adj) Twilight
imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure
3. (noun) Twilight
the light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18¡ below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
4. (noun) Twilight
faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed
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Sense: (the time of) the dim light just before the sun rises or just after it sets.
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 Afrikaans: skemer |
 Arabic: غَسَق |
 Bulgarian: здрач |
 Brazilian: crepúsculo |
 Czech: šero |
 German: die Dämmerung |
 Danish: tusmørke; skumring |
 Greek: λυκαυγές, λυκόφως |
 Spanish: crepúsculo; luz del alba |
 Estonian: koidik, videvik |
 Farsi: گرگ و میش |
 Finnish: iltahämärä, aamurusko |
 French: aube naissante; crépuscul |
 Hebrew: דִמדוּמִים |
 Hindi: धुंधला प्रकाश |
 Croatian: sumrak, suton |
 Hungarian: szürkület |
 Indonesian: senjakala |
 Icelandic: ljósaskipti |
 Italian: crepuscolo |
 Japanese: 薄明 |
 Korean: 여명 |
 Lithuanian: prieblanda, sutemos |
 Latvian: krēsla; mijkrēslis |
 Malay: cahaya samar-samar |
 Dutch: schemering |
 Norwegian: skumring, tussmørke |
 Polish: brzask, zmrok |
 Persian: گرگ و میش |
 Pashto: سپیدی |
 Portuguese: crepúsculo |
 Romanian: amurg, crepuscul |
 Russian: сумерки |
 Slovak: šero |
 Slovenian: mrak |
 Serbian: sumrak |
 Swedish: gryning, skymning, halvda |
 Thai: ช่วงเวลาหลังจากพระอาทิตย์ |
 Turkish: alaca karanlık |
 Taiwanese: 曙光，暮光 |
 Ukrainian: сутінки, присмерки; напів |
 Urdu: جھٹپٹا، دھندلکا |
 Vietnamese: lúc choạng vạng |
 Chinese: 曙光，暮光 |
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