twilight
Meaning of twilight
- 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.
- The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
It was twilight by the time I got back home.
- The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
- Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
The twilight of one's life
verb
To illuminate faintly.
adjective
Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure.
Information about twilight
- The plural form of twilight is: twilights.
- Languages in which twilight is used:
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Hyphenation of twilight
twi-light
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- twilight is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
twilight synonyms
Meaning dusky:
Meaning dusk:
dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
Translation of twilight
- French: crépuscule
- Spanish: crepúsculo, anochecer
- Italian: crepuscolo
- German: Dämmerung
Words that rhyme with twilight
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