n. | 1. | |
1. | The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth. | |
2. | faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed. | |
a. | 1. | Seen or done by twilight. |
2. | Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure. |
Noun | 1. | twilight - the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" |
2. | twilight - the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth | |
3. | twilight - a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire" | |
Adj. | 1. | twilight - 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" |