| Definitions of 'twilight' |
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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| Definitions of 'twilight' |
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 18ยก 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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