Search Result:twilight
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")