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TWILIGHT definition: 1. the period just before it becomes completely dark in the evening: 2. the final part of a…. Learn more.
Twilight is light produced by sunlight scattering in the upper atmosphere, when the Sun is below the horizon, which illuminates the lower atmosphere and the Earth's surface. The word twilight can also refer to the periods of time when this illumination occurs.
The meaning of TWILIGHT is 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.
1. uncountable noun. Twilight is the time just before night when the daylight has almost gone but when it is not completely dark. They returned at twilight, and set off for one of the promenade bars. Synonyms: dusk, evening, sunset, early evening More Synonyms of twilight. 2. uncountable noun.
The time just after sunset, when the light is half-faded, but the world is not yet totally dark, is twilight. If you are between two states, like asleep and awake, that can also be called a twilight moment. Twilight comes just before the night falls.
a state in which things are strange, mysterious or secret; a state that exists on the dividing line between two things. the twilight world of the occult. The dissidents lived in a twilight world of hushed voices and secret meetings. the twilight zone between living and merely existing.
the soft, diffused light lights from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, either from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall. the period in the morning or, more commonly, in the evening during which this light lights prevails.
twilight - The time of two lights, the fading sunset and the emerging light of the moon and stars; there are three sequential stages of twilight: civil twilight, nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight.
TWILIGHT meaning: the time just before it becomes completely dark in the evening. Learn more.
noun. The subdued light just after sunset or, in less common usage, just before sunrise. Webster's New World. The diffused light from the sky during the early evening or early morning when the sun is below the horizon and its light is refracted by the earth's atmosphere. American Heritage. Similar definitions. The period from sunset to dark.
