twilight

1. 1.

   lighted by or as if by twilight

   “The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn”

   “the twilight glow of the sky”

   “a boat on a twilit river”

   Synonymsduskytwilit

   Similardark

Other forms of twilight

plural

twilights·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about twilight

What does twilight mean?

twilight means "the time of day immediately following sunset". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in twilight?

twilight has 2 syllables: twi-light. The stress falls on "twi". In IPA it is /ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt/.

What is another word for twilight?

Close synonyms include dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is twilight a common word?

twilight is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with twilight?

27 words rhyme with twilight. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.