American English pronunciation
How to pronounce twilight
IPA transcription: [t'waɪ,laɪt]
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Noun
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the time of day immediately following sunset
“he loved the twilight”
“they finished before the fall of night”
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the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
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a condition of decline following successes
“in the twilight of the empire”
Adjective
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lighted by or as if by twilight; -Henry Fielding
“The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn”
“the twilight glow of the sky”
“a boat on a twilit river”
Usage examples
- "Still a better love story than Twilight", he commented on the porn movie.
- The sunset faded into twilight before anything else happened.
- And then you go on about how twilight always makes you sad.
- "Still a better love story than Twilight", he commented on the porn movie.
- Daley serves chiefly as an example of the Celtic Twilight in Australian verse.
- "Still a better love story than Twilight", he commented on the porn movie.
- The sunset faded into twilight before anything else happened.
- "Still a better love story than Twilight", he commented on the porn movie.
- "Still a better love story than Twilight", he commented on the porn movie.
- Said lesson to be learned in the Twilight Zone.