Thesaurus:twilight

English

Noun

Sense: the period between daylight and darkness when a soft light is visible in the sky

Synonyms
  • blue hour
  • crepuscule (now rare)
  • crepusculum
  • dimmet (UK dialect)
  • evenglome (rare, literary)
  • gloaming (poetic, UK dialect)
  • glooming
  • tweenlight (rare or dialectal)
  • twilight
Hyponyms
Meronyms
  • lauds (historical, Christianity)
  • vespers (historical, Christianity)
Holonyms
Comeronyms
Various

Further reading

  • “125. morning” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
  • “126. evening” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
  • “422. dimness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
  • “twilight” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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