- the small amount of light or the period of time at the end of the day after the sun has gone down
- in the twilight It was hard to see him clearly in the twilight.
- at twilight We went for a walk along the beach at twilight.
Extra ExamplesTopics Spacec2- She stared into the gathering twilight.
- They gazed up at the twilight sky.
- in the twilight hour before dawn
- These animals are most active during the hours of twilight around dawn and dusk.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- gathering
- sky
- hour
- world
- …
- at twilight
- in the twilight
- into the twilight
- …
- in the twilight of your career, life, etc.
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- the final stage of something when it becomes weaker or less important than it was
- She was in the twilight of her career by then.
- He spent his twilight years (= the last years of his life) living with his daughter in Bristol.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- gathering
- sky
- hour
- world
- …
- at twilight
- in the twilight
- into the twilight
- …
- in the twilight of your career, life, etc.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old English twi- ‘two’ (used in an obscure sense in this compound) + the noun light.
Idioms
See twilight in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarya/the twilight world (of something) | the twilight zone
- a state in which things are strange, mysterious or secret; a state that exists on the dividing line between two things
- the twilight world of the occult
- The dissidents lived in a twilight world of hushed voices and secret meetings.
- the twilight zone between living and merely existing
- They lived in the twilight zone on the fringes of society.
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