Twilight

Noun

 * 1) The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
 * I could just make out her face in the twilight.
 * 1) The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
 * It was twilight by the time I got back home.
 * 1) Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
 * The twilight of probability. —John Locke.

Synonyms

 * gloaming

Coordinate terms

 * golden hour

Hyponyms

 * dawn
 * dusk

Derived terms

 * astronomical twilight
 * civil twilight
 * nautical twilight
 * twilightish
 * twilighty
 * twilight zone

Adjective

 * 1) Pertaining to or resembling twilight
 * O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —Alexander Pope.

Adjectives for Twilight
brightening; silvery; sad; deepening; dark; gruesome; obscure; intermediate; shadowy cool; brilliant; dubious; rainy; darkling dim; amber; perpetual; magical; unhurried blank;   uncomfortable;   slow-dropping; white;  disastrous;   sulphurous;   mystic; thickening; fading; wintry; gathering; winsome; mournful; ancient; departing; hollow; summer; hot; breathless; hesitant; lingering; hushed; mellow; stilly; dense; chilling; luminous; balmy; sympathetic; beautiful; closing.

Verbs for Twilight
approach—; bathe in—; flicker in—; melt into—; reflect—; twinkle in—; —bedims; —creeps upon; —curtails; —curtains; —declines; —deepens; —descends; —diffuses; —dims;  —drapes;   —fades;   —gathers 'round; —glimmers; —hazes; —obscures; —screens; —shades; —shadows; —veils; — wanes; —wraps; —yields to.

Adverbs for Twilight
faintly; delicately; rosily; dully; dimly; windily; fearsomely; beautifully; seductively; romantically; unforgettably; roseately; coldly; darksomely.

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

Etymology
From, literally ‘second light, half-light’, from tweoneleoht:. Cognate to twelecht:,  Zwielicht:.

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 黃昏, 黄昏, 暮色, 薄暮, 黎明
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: soumrak
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: agu; koit (morning), eha (evening)
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, Zwielicht
 * Greek: λυκόφως (lykóphos), σούρουπο  (súrupo), μούχρωμα  (múxroma)
 * Hungarian: szürkület, félhomály (both before sunrise and after sunset), pirkadat, pirkadás, (before sunrise only),  (after sunset only)


 * Icelandic: ljósaskipti
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 夕暮れ, 黄昏
 * Low German: Tweidüster
 * Luxembourgish: Dämmerung
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak: súmrak
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: skymning (after setting of sun only), gryning (before rising of sun only)
 * Võro: ago; hummogunõ ago (morning), õdagunõ ago (evening)


 * Danish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: λυκόφως (lykóphos), μισοσκόταδο  (misoskótaðo), σούρουπο  (súrupo), μούχρωμα  (múxroma)
 * Hebrew: בין השמשות
 * Italian:


 * Luxembourgish: Dämmerung
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: сумерки
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: сумрак
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: takip-silim


 * Croatian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: Zwielicht, Halbdunkel
 * Greek: μισοσκόταδο (misoskótaðo), σύθαμπο  (síθambo)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 薄明かり


 * Macedonian:, самрак
 * Russian:, сумрак, полумрак
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovak: šero
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: skumrask


 * : (aš-šáfaq)


 * : rökkur, ljósaskipti
 * : 황혼 (hwanghon)
 * : crepúsculo