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- pronunciation:
- twaI
laIt
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noun |
| definition 1: |
Twilight is the faint light of the sky when the sun has just gone down or just before the sun comes up in the morning. The sky is mostly dark but there is just a little light from the sun below the horizon.
We played softball till the sun went down, but we couldn't see well enough in the twilight to keep playing.In the summer, I love to sit out on the porch in the twilight.- similar words:
- dawn, sunset
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| definition 2: |
The time when the sun is just below the horizon is called twilight.
The hikers returned to their camp just at twilight.- antonyms:
- dawn
- similar words:
- eve, evening, sunset
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| related words: |
dark |
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