twilight
21twilight — The period of incomplete darkness following sunset and preceding sunrise. Twilight is designated as civil, nautical, or astronomical, as the darker limit occurs when the center of the sun is 6°, 12°, and 18°, respectively, below the celestial… …
22twilight — twi|light [ twaı,laıt ] noun uncount 1. ) the time in the evening when the sky is beginning to get dark: I love walking along the beach at twilight. 2. ) the light from the sky at twilight: We could still just see the hills in the twilight. in… …
23twilight — noun 1 (U) the small amount of light in the sky as the day ends: It appeared shadowy and insubstantial in the twilight. 2 (U) the time when day is just starting to become night 3 (singular) the period just before the end of the most active part… …
24twilight — twilighty, adj. /twuy luyt /, n. 1. the soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, either from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall. 2. the period in the morning or, more commonly, in the… …
25twilight — 1. noun /ˈtwaɪlait/ a) 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… …
26twilight — n. in the twilight (in the twilight of one s career) * * * [ twaɪlaɪt] in the twilight (in the twilight of one s career) …
27twilight — 1. noun 1) we arrived at twilight Syn: dusk, sunset, sundown, nightfall, evening, close of day, day s end; literary eventide, gloaming Ant: dawn, daybreak 2) it was scarcely visible in the twilight …
28twilight — UK [ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt] / US noun [uncountable] 1) the time in the evening when the sky is beginning to get dark I love walking along the beach at twilight. 2) the light from the sky at twilight We could still just see the hills in the twilight. • in the …
29twilight — noun Usage: often attributive Date: 15th century 1. 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 2. a. an… …
30twilight — Synonyms and related words: afterglow, alpenglow, aurora, bad light, brown of dusk, brownness, candlelight, candlelighting, cocklight, crepuscular, crepuscule, dark, darkening, darkish, darkishness, darkling, darksome, darksomeness, dawnlight,… …
