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twilight
Overview of noun twilight
The noun twilight has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (1) twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle -- (the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night")
2. (1) twilight -- (the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth)
3. twilight -- (a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire")
Overview of adj twilight
The adj twilight has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. dusky, twilight, twilit -- (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")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun twilight
3 senses of twilight
Sense 1
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
=> hour, time of day
=> clock time, time
=> reading, meter reading, indication
=> datum, data point
=> information
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
twilight
=> light, visible light, visible radiation
=> actinic radiation, actinic ray
=> electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, nonparticulate radiation
=> radiation
=> energy
=> physical phenomenon
=> natural phenomenon
=> phenomenon
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
twilight
=> decline, declination
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun twilight
1 of 3 senses of twilight
Sense 1
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
=> night
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun twilight
3 senses of twilight
Sense 1
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
=> hour, time of day
Sense 2
twilight
=> light, visible light, visible radiation
Sense 3
twilight
=> decline, declination
Antonyms of noun twilight
Member Holonyms of noun twilight
Substance Holonyms of noun twilight
Part Holonyms of noun twilight
1 of 3 senses of twilight
Sense 1
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
PART OF: evening, eve, even, eventide
Member Meronyms of noun twilight
Substance Meronyms of noun twilight
Part Meronyms of noun twilight
Meronyms of noun twilight
Holonyms of noun twilight
1 of 3 senses of twilight
Sense 1
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
PART OF: evening, eve, even, eventide
Attributes of noun twilight
Derived Forms of noun twilight
Domain of noun twilight
Domain Terms of noun twilight
Familiarity of noun twilight
twilight used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun twilight
3 senses of twilight
Sense 1
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
> hour, time of day
=> noon, twelve noon, high noon, midday, noonday, noontide
=> mealtime
=> late-night hour
=> midnight
=> small hours
=> bedtime
=> closing time
=> dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow
=> early-morning hour
=> sunset, sundown
=> twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
=> none
=> happy hour
=> rush hour
=> zero hour
=> canonical hour
Sense 2
twilight
> light, visible light, visible radiation
=> beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation
=> candlelight, candle flame
=> corona
=> counterglow, gegenschein
=> daylight
=> firelight
=> fluorescence
=> friar's lantern, ignis fatuus, jack-o'lantern, will-o'the-wisp
=> gaslight
=> radiance, glow, glowing
=> glow
=> half-light
=> incandescence, glow
=> lamplight
=> luminescence
=> meteor, shooting star
=> moonlight, moonshine, moon
=> starlight
=> sunlight, sunshine, sun
=> scintillation
=> streamer
=> torchlight
=> twilight
Sense 3
twilight
> decline, declination
=> neglect, disuse
=> twilight
=> wreck
Meronyms of noun twilight
3 senses of twilight
Sense 2
twilight
=> light, visible light, visible radiation
=> actinic radiation, actinic ray
=> electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, nonparticulate radiation
HAS PART: photon
Holonyms of noun twilight
1 of 3 senses of twilight
Sense 1
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
PART OF: evening, eve, even, eventide
Grep of noun twilight
twilight
twilight of the gods
twilight sleep
twilight vision
twilight zone
Antonyms of adj twilight
1 sense of twilight
Sense 1
dusky, twilight(prenominal), twilit
INDIRECT (VIA dark) -> light
Similarity of adj twilight
1 sense of twilight
Sense 1
dusky, twilight(prenominal), twilit
=> dark (vs. light)
Pertainyms of adj twilight
Attributes of adj twilight
Domain of adj twilight
Domain Terms of adj twilight
Familiarity of adj twilight
twilight used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adj twilight
twilight
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