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- Dictionarytwilight/ˈtwʌɪlʌɪt/
noun
- 1. the soft glowing light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, caused by the reflection of the sun's rays from the atmosphere: "she looked out on the beautiful twilight" Similar
- 2. a period or state of obscurity, ambiguity, or gradual decline: "he was in the twilight of his career" Similar Opposite
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Darkness & becoming dark. twilight noun (FINAL PART) the twilight of something literary. the final part of a period: in the twilight of something I knew him when he was in the twilight of his career. See more. Idiom.
The meaning of TWILIGHT is the light from the sky between full night and sunrise or between sunset and full night produced by diffusion of sunlight through the atmosphere and its dust; also : a time of twilight.
Twilight is light produced by sunlight scattering in the upper atmosphere, when the Sun is below the horizon, which illuminates the lower atmosphere and the Earth's surface. The word twilight can also refer to the periods of time when this illumination occurs. [2]
the soft, diffused light lights from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, either from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall. the period in the morning or, more commonly, in the evening during which this light lights prevails.
the period of time during which the sun is a specified angular distance below the horizon (6°, 12°, and 18° for civil twilight, nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight, respectively)
The time just after sunset, when the light is half-faded, but the world is not yet totally dark, is twilight. If you are between two states, like asleep and awake, that can also be called a twilight moment. Twilight comes just before the night falls.
a state in which things are strange, mysterious or secret; a state that exists on the dividing line between two things. the twilight world of the occult. The dissidents lived in a twilight world of hushed voices and secret meetings. the twilight zone between living and merely existing.
twilight - The time of two lights, the fading sunset and the emerging light of the moon and stars; there are three sequential stages of twilight: civil twilight, nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight.
1 the faint light or the period of time at the end of the day after the sun has gone down It was hard to see him clearly in the twilight. We went for a walk along the beach at twilight.
TWILIGHT definition: the time just before it becomes completely dark in the evening. Learn more.
