twilight
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
twilight
adj 1: 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}]
n 1: 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}]
2: the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the
horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the
earth
3: a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight
of the empire"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
from
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Twilight, PA (borough, FIPS 78008)
Location: 40.11432 N, 79.89052 W
Population (1990): 252 (112 housing units)
Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Twilight, PA
Twilight
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "twilight":
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
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