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单词 twilights
释义

twilight

noun

twi·​light ˈtwī-ˌlīt How to pronounce twilight (audio)
often attributive
1
: 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
2
a
: an intermediate state that is not clearly defined
lived in the twilight of neutrality Newsweek
b
: a period of decline

Synonyms

  • black
  • blackness
  • candlelight
  • dark
  • darkness
  • dusk
  • gloaming
  • gloom
  • murk
  • night
  • semidarkness
  • shade
  • shadows
  • umbra
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Example Sentences

The sun set and twilight fell. stumbled around the twilight of the shuttered room, unable to see where she was going
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Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

twilight

noun

twi·​light ˈtwī-ˌlīt How to pronounce twilight (audio)
1
: the period or the light from the sky between full night and sunrise or between sunset and full night
2
: a period of decline
She is in the twilight of her career.

twilights

noun

plural of twilight
as in dusks
the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness watched as twilight descended and the woods fell silent

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • dusks
  • sunsets
  • nights
  • evenings
  • sundowns
  • nightfalls
  • eves
  • crepuscles
  • crepuscules
  • darks
  • eventides
  • nighttimes
  • gloamings
  • evenfalls

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sunrises
  • dawns
  • mornings
  • aurorae
  • auroras
  • morns
  • days
  • daylights
  • daytimes
  • lights
  • daybreaks
  • forenoons
  • sunups
  • cockcrows
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