'Twilight' definitions:
Definition of 'twilight'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: dusky, twilight(a), twilit]
noun
The time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]
noun
The diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
noun
A condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire"
Definition of 'Twilight'
From: GCIDE
- Twilight \Twi"light`\, a.
- 1. Seen or done by twilight. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure. [1913 Webster]
- O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Twilight'
From: GCIDE
- Twilight \Twi"light`\, n. [OE. twilight, AS. twi- (see Twice) + le['o]ht light; hence the sense of doubtful or half light; cf. LG. twelecht, G. zwielicht. See Light.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18[deg] 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed. [1913 Webster]
- As when the sun . . . from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The twilight of probability. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'twilight'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- afterglow,
- alpenglow,
- aurora,
- bad light,
- brown of dusk,
- brownness,
- candlelight,
- candlelighting,
- cocklight,
- crepuscular,
- crepuscule,
- dark,
- darkening,
- darkish,
- darkishness,
- darkling,
- darksome,
- darksomeness,
- dawnlight,
- deadness,
- decay,
- declination,
- decline,
- dim,
- dim light,
- diminution,
- dimming,
- dimness,
- dimpsy,
- downturn,
- drabness,
- dullness,
- dusk,
- duskiness,
- duskingtide,
- duskness,
- dusky,
- ebb,
- end,
- evening,
- evensong,
- eventide,
- first light,
- flatness,
- foredawn,
- gloam,
- gloaming,
- glooming,
- gloomy,
- glow,
- half-light,
- lack of sparkle,
- lackluster,
- lifelessness,
- limbo,
- lusterlessness,
- mat,
- mat finish,
- morning twilight,
- murk,
- murkiness,
- nightfall,
- obscure,
- owllight,
- partial darkness,
- semidark,
- shadowy,
- shady,
- slump,
- somberness,
- sundown,
- sunset,
- sunsetty,
- the small hours,
- twilight zone,
- twilighty,
- vesper,
- vespertine,
- wane,
- waning,
- weakening
Twilight, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Twilight, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000) :
241
Housing Units (2000) :
103
Land area (2000) :
1.607736 sq. miles (4.164016 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1.607736 sq. miles (4.164016 sq. km)
FIPS code :
78008
Located within :
Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location :
40.114307 N, 79.890369 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.