crepusculumn.
/krɪˈpʌskjuːləm/ Twilight, dusk.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > twilight
evengloamOE
twilighting1387
crepusculum1398
crepusculec1400
twilightc1440
twinlightc1532
grisping1580
grey1592
owl-light1599
gropsing1606
twatter-light1606
twitterlight1608
dusk1622
grasp1650
torchlighta1656
crepuscle1665
mock-shade1669
dimps1693
duskish1696
dimmit1746
darklins1767
twilight glow1819
gloama1821
owlet light1821
sandhya1876
dusk-light1937
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [noun] > twilight, dusk, or nightfall
nighteOE
evengloamOE
eveningOE
gloamingc1000
darknessa1382
twilighting1387
crepusculum1398
crepusculec1400
darkc1400
twilight1412
sky1515
twinlightc1532
day-going?1552
cockshut1592
shutting1598
blind man's holiday1599
candle-lighting1605
gropsing1606
nightfall1612
dusk1622
torchlighta1656
candlelight1663
crepuscle1665
shut1667
mock-shade1669
close1696
duskish1696
glooma1699
setting1699
dimmit1746
to-fall of the day or night1748
darklins1767
even-close1781
mirkning1790
gloaming-shot1793
darkening1814
bat-flying time1818
gloama1821
between-light1821
settle1822
dayfall1823
evenfall1825
onfall1825
owl-hoot1832
glooming1842
darkfall1884
smokefall1936
dusk-light1937
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s)
beginningc1200
calendsc1374
crepusculum1398
childhood1549
infancy1555
rudiments1566
primordium1577
primitives1602
inchoation1652
inceptive1728
incunabula1824
baby step1825
inchoate1845
incipiency1858
incipience1864
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum ix. xxiv. 361 The euentyde highte Crepusculum..whanne it is nat certaynly knowe bytwene lyght and derknesse.
1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxiii The same time..That clerkes call Crepusculum at eue.
1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. New World (1684) i. 176 By Observing the height of that Air which causeth the Crepusculum, or Twilight.
1828 T. De Quincey Elements Rhetoric in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 890/2 Which century we regard as the common crepusculum between ancient and modern history.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxv. 313 The twilight too, that long Arctic crepusculum, seemed..disproportionally increased in its duration.
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