TWILIGHT meaning: Period between daylight and darkness

We found 38 dictionaries that define the word twilight:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

twilight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
twilight: Merriam-Webster
twilight, twilight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
twilight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
twilight: Collins English Dictionary
twilight: Vocabulary.com
Twilight, twilight: Wordnik
twilight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Twilight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
twilight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
twilight: Rhymezone
twilight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
twilight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
twilight: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
twilight: FreeDictionary.org
twilight: Mnemonic Dictionary
twilight: TheFreeDictionary.com
twilight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
twilight: Wiktionary
twilight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
twilight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
twilight: Infoplease Dictionary
twilight: Dictionary.com
twilight: Online Etymology Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

twilight: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
twilight: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)

Twilight: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
Twilight: Extragalactic Astronomy
Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

The Twilight, Twilight: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)

Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
▸ noun:  The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
▸ noun:  Any faint light through which something is seen.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
▸ noun:  (figurative, by extension) An in-between or fading condition through which something is perceived.
▸ adjective:  Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure.
▸ verb:  (transitive, poetic) To illuminate faintly.

Similar:

twilit, gloaming, dusky, dusk, dark, nightfall, evenfall, fall, earthshine, airglow, more...

Opposite:

dawn, sunrise, morning

Types:

civil twilight, nautical twilight, more...

Phrases:

twilight zone, twilight years, twilight world, twilight sleep, twilight state, more...

Adjectives:

dim, long, early, gray, soft, grey, short, late, perpetual, purple, green

Colors:

indigo, lavender, dusky blue, mauve, plum, more...