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twilight
English
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?twa?la?t/
Noun
twilight (countable and uncountable, 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.
- The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
- (astronomy) 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.
- , Book IV, Chapter XIV
- The twilight […] of probability.
- , Book IV, Chapter XIV
Synonyms
- (period between daylight and darkness): blue hour, gloaming; see also Thesaurus:twilight
Hyponyms
- (period between daylight and darkness): cockcrow, first light / evenfall, eventide; see also Thesaurus:dawn and Thesaurus:dusk
Hypernyms
- light
Hyponyms
- astronomical twilight
- civil twilight
- nautical twilight
Coordinate terms
- dawn (end of ~ in the morning)
- dusk (end of ~ in the evening)
- evening
- golden hour
- nightfall
- sundown
Derived terms
- twilight industry
- twilightish
- Twilight of the Gods
- twilight shift
- twilighty
- twilight years
- twilight zone
- twilit
Translations
Adjective
twilight (not comparable)
- Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure.
See also
- crepuscular
Verb
twilight (third-person singular simple present twilights, present participle twilighting, simple past and past participle twilit or twilighted)
- (transitive, poetic) To illuminate faintly.
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forenight
English
Etymology
From Middle English fore-niht, from Old English foranniht, equivalent to fore- +? night. Cognate with Dutch voornacht, German Vornacht.
Noun
forenight (plural forenights)
- (Scotland) The evening, between twilight and bedtime.
Synonyms
- eve, eventide, undern; see also Thesaurus:evening
Anagrams
- fothering
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