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—
Newsweek
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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
The album amalgamates this twilight mood into a cohesive, moody, sometimes melancholic, often achingly pretty 34 minutes of music.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
Where cars sit idle beneath the open sky, trees might one day arch overhead and couples linger in a waning twilight.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
An evening stroll to Sunset Rock for sweeping twilight vistas of the Straits of Mackinac (which connect Lake Huron and Lake Michigan) and spending time in one of the hammocks on Stonecliffe’s peaceful front lawn.
—Beth Luberecki, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
In addition to porting old Wii U games, Nintendo’s still releasing new titles in the twilight days of the Switch.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2024
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Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
Where cars sit idle beneath the open sky, trees might one day arch overhead and couples linger in a waning twilight.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
An evening stroll to Sunset Rock for sweeping twilight vistas of the Straits of Mackinac (which connect Lake Huron and Lake Michigan) and spending time in one of the hammocks on Stonecliffe’s peaceful front lawn.
—Beth Luberecki, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
In addition to porting old Wii U games, Nintendo’s still releasing new titles in the twilight days of the Switch.
—Ash Parrish, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Twilight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twilight. Accessed 8 Nov. 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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