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English adjective: twilight | |||
| 1. | twilight lighted by or as if by twilight | ||
| Samples | The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn. The twilight glow of the sky. A boat on a twilit river. | ||
| Synonyms | dusky, twilit | ||
| Similar | dark | ||
| Antonyms | light | ||
English noun: twilight | |||
| 1. | twilight (time) the time of day immediately following sunset | ||
| Samples | He loved the twilight. They finished before the fall of night. | ||
| Synonyms | crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | hour, time of day | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | night | ||
| Part meronym | eve, even, evening, eventide | ||
| 2. | twilight (phenomenon) the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | light, visible light, visible radiation | ||
| 3. | twilight (state) a condition of decline following successes | ||
| Samples | In the twilight of the empire. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | declination, decline | ||
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