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KK Pronunciation

〔 ˋtwaIˏlaIt 〕

Pronunciation

〔 ˊtwailait 〕


Overview of noun twilight

The noun twilight has 3 senses


  • twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle -- (the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night")

  • twilight -- (the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth)

  • twilight -- (a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire")


Overview of adj twilight

The adj twilight has 1 sense


  • dusky, twilight, twilit -- (lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river")