half-light

1. 1.

   a greyish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors)

   Broaderlight

Questions about half-light

What does half-light mean?

half-light means "a greyish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors)".

How many syllables are in half-light?

half-light has 2 syllables: hal-f-light. The stress falls on "hal".

Is half-light a common word?

half-light is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.