often attributive
1
: the light from the sky between full night and sunrise or between sunset and full night produced by diffusion of sunlight through the atmosphere and its dust
also
: a time of twilight
2
a
: an intermediate state that is not clearly defined
lived in the twilight of neutrality—
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b
: a period of decline
Synonyms
Examples of twilight in a Sentence
The sun set and twilight fell.
stumbled around the twilight of the shuttered room, unable to see where she was going
Recent Examples on the Web
Stay for twilight after the official sunset time for a prismatic experience.
—Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2024
Celestial happening this week This coming Friday morning during early morning twilight, the last quarter crescent moon will be parked just to the lower left of the planet Saturn.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
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Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2024
Celestial happening this week This coming Friday morning during early morning twilight, the last quarter crescent moon will be parked just to the lower left of the planet Saturn.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
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“Twilight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twilight. Accessed 5 Jun. 2024.
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twilight
noun
twi·light
ˈtwī-ˌlīt 
: the period or the light from the sky between full night and sunrise or between sunset and full night
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