Usually means: Period between daylight and darkness.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. twilight: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. twilight, twilight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. twilight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. twilight: Collins English Dictionary
  5. twilight: Vocabulary.com
  6. Twilight, twilight: Wordnik
  7. twilight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  9. Twilight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. twilight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. twilight: Rhymezone
  12. twilight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. twilight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. twilight: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  15. twilight: Free Dictionary
  16. twilight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. twilight: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. twilight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  19. twilight: Wiktionary
  20. twilight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  21. twilight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  22. twilight: Infoplease Dictionary
  23. twilight: Dictionary.com
  24. twilight: Online Etymology Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. twilight: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. twilight: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Twilight: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Twilight: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Twilight, Twilight: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See twilighting as well.)

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.

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