Thesaurus:twilight

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

• dawn    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dusk    [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

• lauds (historical, Christianity)
• vespers (historical, Christianity)

Holonyms

• day    [⇒ thesaurus]

Comeronyms

• daytime    [⇒ thesaurus]
• nighttime    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• golden hour (photography)

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.