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1 —as in:
pink clouds in a twilight sky
Definition
the time of day between daylight and darkness (just after sunset or just before sunrise); or the light from the sky at that time- It is a beautiful picture taken in twilight.
twilight = the light from the sky in the time of day between daylight and darkness (just after sunset or just before sunrise)
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- Twilight, just before sunrise, is my favorite time to be outdoors.
- I awakened to a twilight sky, but did not know if the sun was setting or rising.
- Due to its orbit, Mercury can only be viewed near the western horizon after sunset or the eastern horizon before sunrise—usually in twilight.
- I don't know whether it is morning or evening, I lie in the pale cradle of the twilight,Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Twilight was giving way to darkness.Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony
- when we ran out of the trees I could see the twilight again, that quality of light as if time really had stopped for a while, with the sun hanging just under the horizon,William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury
- It was on the dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz, which is a very interesting old place.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- By the time I reached the mountains, it was deep twilight, the trees like shadows of themselves.Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy
- The sunset faded to twilight before anything further happened.H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
twilight = the light from the sky in the time of day between daylight and darkness
twilight = the light from the sky when the sun is just below the horizon
twilight = the light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
twilight = the light from the sky between daylight and darkness
twilight = between daylight and darkness
twilight = the light from the time of day between daylight and darkness
twilight = the time of day between daylight and darkness
twilight = the time of day immediately following sunset
2 —as in:
the twilight of her career
Definition
a condition of decline following successes- He ruled in the twilight of the empire.
twilight = a condition of decline following successes
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- Only then shall you know that the erect and the fallen are but one man standing in twilight between the night of his pigmy-self and the day of his god self,Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet
- Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- This was a group of white-shirted, khaki-trousered, suspendered old men who had spent their lives doing nothing and passed their twilight days doing same on pine benches under the live oaks on the square.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- ...the twilight of his own habitual stupor.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
twilight = a condition of decline following successes
twilight = a condition of decline following successes
twilight = elderly years
twilight = a condition of decline
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Much more rarely, twilight can refer to
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