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Twilight
Definitions
- 1 Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure. not-comparable
- 2 Synonym of mesopelagic (“Describing the pelagic zone of the ocean between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones, characterized by very minimal light.”) not-comparable
"twilight zone"
- 1 lighted by or as if by twilight wordnet
- 1 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. countable, uncountable
"Near-synonym: half-light"
- 2 the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth wordnet
- 3 The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness. countable, uncountable
"It was twilight by the time I got back home."
- 4 a condition of decline following successes wordnet
- 5 Any faint light through which something is seen. countable, uncountable
"Two women, Eusabio’s wife and sister, looked on from the deep twilight of the hut."
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- 6 the time of day immediately following sunset wordnet
- 7 The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon. countable, uncountable
- 8 An in-between or fading condition through which something is perceived. broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable
"The twilight of one's life"
- 1 To illuminate faintly. poetic, transitive
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twilight, twyelyghte, equivalent to twi- (“double, half-”) + light, literally ‘second light, half-light’. Cognate to Scots twa licht, twylicht, twielicht (“twilight”), Low German twilecht, twelecht (“twilight”), Dutch tweelicht (“twilight, dusk”), German Zwielicht (“twilight, dusk”). Compare Old English twēone lēoht (“twilight”).
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twilight, twyelyghte, equivalent to twi- (“double, half-”) + light, literally ‘second light, half-light’. Cognate to Scots twa licht, twylicht, twielicht (“twilight”), Low German twilecht, twelecht (“twilight”), Dutch tweelicht (“twilight, dusk”), German Zwielicht (“twilight, dusk”). Compare Old English twēone lēoht (“twilight”).
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twilight, twyelyghte, equivalent to twi- (“double, half-”) + light, literally ‘second light, half-light’. Cognate to Scots twa licht, twylicht, twielicht (“twilight”), Low German twilecht, twelecht (“twilight”), Dutch tweelicht (“twilight, dusk”), German Zwielicht (“twilight, dusk”). Compare Old English twēone lēoht (“twilight”).
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