twilightnoun
uk/ˈtwaɪ.laɪt/us/ˈtwaɪ.laɪt/twilight noun (EVENING)
[ U ] the period just before it becomes completely dark in the evening:
I could make out a dark figure in the twilight.
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Days & times of day
- afternoon
- afternoons
- am
- at the crack of dawn idiom
- bedtime
- circadian
- crepuscular
- in the dead of night/winter idiom
- last orders
- lighting-up time
- local time
- lunch hour
- night
- o'clock
- office hours
- opening time
- overnight
- playtime
- twilit
- watershed
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Darkness & becoming dark
twilight noun (FINAL PART)
the twilight of sth literary
the final part of a period:
I knew him when he was in the twilight of his career.
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Stages & phases
- beta
- early-stage
- early-term
- in phase/out of phase idiom
- landmark
- leg
- period
- phase
- point
- stage
- step
- stepping stone
- tertiary
- the home straight
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Ends and endings
Idiom(s)
twilight years
twilightadjective
uk/ˈtwaɪ.laɪt/us/ˈtwaɪ.laɪt/literaryused to describe a way of life that involves illegal or immoral activities, and is on the edge of normal society:
The remaining inhabitants of this once-prosperous town have got used to a twilight existence.
Leaving a secure job for the twilight world of pop music may have been a mistake.
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Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- aberrant
- abnormal
- add
- bizarre
- curious
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- kinky
- kooky
- like nothing (else) on earth idiom
- like nothing on earth idiom
- not add up idiom
- peculiarly
- random
- rum
- sicko
- singularity
- singularly
- weird
- whacky
- whimsical
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Idiom(s)
twilight zone