twilight

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

I - noun

1. the time of day immediately following sunset (Freq. 1)
- he loved the twilight
- they finished before the fall of night
• Syn:
dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall,
fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
• Derivationally related forms:
crepuscular (for: crepuscle), crepuscular (for: crepuscule), dusky (for: dusk)
• Hypernyms:
hour, time of day
• Hyponyms:
night
• Part Holonyms:
evening, eve, even, eventide
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 (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
light, visible light, visible radiation
3. a condition of decline following successes
- in the twilight of the empire
• Hypernyms:
decline, declination

II - 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, twilit
• Similar to:
dark
• Derivationally related forms:
dusk (for: dusky), duskiness (for: dusky)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dusky, twilight(a), twilit, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle