twilight
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From twi- + light; ‘second light, half-light’. Compare Low German twelecht, German Zwielicht.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtwaɪlait/
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[edit] Noun
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twilight (plural twilights)
- 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.
- Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
- The twilight of probability. —John Locke.
[edit] Translations
light before rising, and after the setting, of the sun
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time between daylight and darkness
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faint light; dubious medium
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[edit] Adjective
twilight
- Pertaining to or resembling twilight
- O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —Alexander Pope.
