Twilight

Quick meaning: Twilight is a noun meaning The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Any faint light through which something is seen.
2. (astronomy) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
3. (figurative, by extension) An in-between or fading condition through which something is perceived.
4. Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure.
5. (transitive, poetic) To illuminate faintly.
6. 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.
7. Synonym of mesopelagic (“Describing the pelagic zone of the ocean between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones, characterized by very minimal light.”)

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: half-light

The twilight of one's life

It was twilight by the time I got back home.

I could just make out her face in the twilight.

Word Forms

• twilights
• twilighting
• twilit
• twilighted

Synonyms for twilight

Depending on context, synonyms include gloaming, crepuscule, crepusculum, dimmet, evenglome, glooming.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dusk, gloaming, twilit, evenfall, nightfall, dark.

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