Definitions for twilight
ˈtwaɪˌlaɪttwi·light

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepusclenoun

   the time of day immediately following sunset

   "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"

2. twilightnoun

   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. twilightadjective

   a condition of decline following successes

   "in the twilight of the empire"

4. dusky, twilight(a), twilitadjective

   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"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. twilightnoun

   The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

   I could just make out her face in the twilight.

2. twilightnoun

   The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.

   It was twilight by the time I got back home.

3. twilightnoun

   Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.

   The twilight of probability. John Locke.

4. twilightadjective

   Pertaining to or resembling twilight

   O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves. Alexander Pope.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Twilightadjective

   1. Not clearly or brightly illuminated; obscure; deeply shaded.

   When the sun begins to fling
   His flaring beams, me goddess bring
   To arched walks of twilight groves. John Milton.

   O’er the twilight groves, and dusky caves,
   Long-sounding isles, and intermingled graves,
   Black melancholy sits, and round her throws
   A death-like silence, and a dead repose. Alexander Pope.

   2. Seen by twilight.

   On old Lycæus or Cyllene hoar
   Trip no more in twilight ranks. John Milton.

2. Twilightnoun

   The dubious or faint light before sunrise, and after sunset; obscure light; uncertain view.

   Etymology: tweelicht, Dutch; tweoneleoht , Saxon.

   Her twilights were more clear than our mid-day. John Donne.

   Suspicions amongst thoughts, are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are to be well guarded. Francis Bacon.

   A faint weak love of virtue, and of good,
   Reflects from her on them, which understood
   Her worth; and though she have shut in all day
   The twilight of her memory doth stay. John Donne.

   He that saw hell in’s melancholy dream,
   And in the twilight of his phancy’s theme
   Scar’d from his sins, repented in a fright,
   Had he view’d Scotland, had turn’d proselyte. John Cleveland.

   Ambrosial night, with clouds exhal’d
   From that high mount of God, whence light and shade
   Spring both, the face of brightest heav’n had chang’d
   To grateful twilight. John Milton, Par. Lost.

   When the sun was down
   They just arriv’d by twilight at a town. Dryden.

   In the greatest part of our concernment he has afforded us only the twilight of probability, suitable to our state of mediocrity. John Locke.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Twilightnoun

   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.

2. Twilightnoun

   faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed

3. Twilightadjective

   seen or done by twilight

4. Twilightadjective

   imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Twilight

   Twilight is the illumination that is produced by sunlight scattering in the upper atmosphere, illuminating the lower atmosphere when the Sun itself is not directly visible because it is below the horizon, so that the surface of the Earth is neither completely lit nor completely dark. The word "twilight" is also used to denote the periods of time when this illumination occurs. The further the Sun is below the horizon, the dimmer the twilight. When the Sun reaches 18 degrees below the horizon, twilight's brightness is nearly zero. Evening twilight ends and night begins. When the Sun again reaches 18 degrees below the horizon, night ends and morning twilight begins. Owing to its distinctive quality, primarily the absence of shadows and the appearance of objects silhouetted against the bright sky, twilight has long been popular with photographers, who refer to it as Sweet Light, and painters, who refer to it as the blue hour, after the French expression l'heure bleue. By analogy with evening twilight, the word "twilight" is also sometimes used metaphorically, to imply that something is losing strength and approaching its end. For example, a very old man may be said to be in the twilight of his life. The collateral adjective for twilight is crepuscular; it is most frequently encountered when applied to certain insects, fishes, and mammals that are most active during that time.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Twilight

   twī′līt, n. the faint light after sunset and before sunrise: an uncertain view: partial darkness.—adj. of twilight: faintly illuminated: obscure.—v.t. to illuminate faintly.—Twilight of the gods, the same as Ragnarök (q.v.). [Lit. ''tween light,' A.S. twí-, from twá, two, and light.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of twilight in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of twilight in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of twilight in a Sentence

1. Brett Kavanaugh:

   No, and we're dealing with an anonymous letter about an anonymous person and an anonymous friend, it's ridiculous. Total Twilight Zone. And no, I've never done anything like that.

2. Hubert H. Humphrey:

   It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

3. Elizabeth Bowen:

   It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.

4. Rod Serling:

   The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

5. H. G. Wells:

   It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

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