Meaning & Definition of Twilight in English
English⟶
Twilight
/twaɪlaɪt/
noun
1. The time of day immediately following sunset
- "He loved the twilight"
- "They finished before the fall of night"
synonym:
- twilight,
- dusk,
- gloaming,
- gloam,
- nightfall,
- evenfall,
- fall,
- crepuscule,
- crepuscle
2. The diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
synonym:
- twilight
3. A condition of decline following successes
- "In the twilight of the empire"
synonym:
- twilight
adjective
1. 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"
synonym:
- dusky,
- twilight(a),
- twilit
Examples of using
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
There was eternal twilight in the place.
We find ourselves in the twilight of our civilization.