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Defenition of the word twilight

    • Defenition of the word twilight

      • A period of time at the end of the day shortly after sunset during which the light fades gradually.
      • Time period between complete darkness and sunrise or sunset.
      • a state of diffused or dim illumination
      • 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"
      • the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
      • a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire"
      • the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
      • a condition of decline following successes
      • the time of day immediately following sunset
      • lighted by or as if by twilight

    Synonyms for the word twilight

      • dusk
      • dusky
      • evenfall
      • evening
      • fall
      • gloaming
      • nightfall
      • sundown
      • sunset
      • twilit

    Similar words in the twilight

      • dark
      • twilight
      • twilight's

    Meronymys for the word twilight

      • eve
      • evening
      • eventide

    Hyponyms for the word twilight

      • night

    Hypernyms for the word twilight

      • declination
      • decline
      • hour
      • light
      • semidarkness
      • time of day
      • visible light
      • visible radiation

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