twilight : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: twilight	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for twilight
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
twilight adj 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" Synonym(s): dusky, twilight(a), twilit n the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" Synonym(s): twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twilight \Twi"light`\, a. 1. Seen or done by twilight. --Milton. 2. Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure. O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves. --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twilight \Twi"light`\, n. [OE. twilight, AS. twi- (see {Twice}) + le[a2]ht light; hence the sense of doubtful or half light; cf. LG. twelecht, G. zwielicht. See {Light}.] 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. 2. faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed. As when the sun . . . from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton. The twilight of probability. --Locke.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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)