From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Nature, Chronologytwilighttwi‧light /ˈtwaɪlaɪt/●くろまる○しろまる○しろまる noun1[uncountable]DNLIGHT the small amount of light in the sky as the day endsin the twilightThe end of the cigarette glowed in the twilight.2[uncountable]TMC the time when day is just starting to become nightSYN duskat twilightromantic walks along the beach at twilight3[singular]OLD/NOT YOUNG the period just before the end of the most active part of someone’s lifetwilight ofin the twilight of her acting careerDepression in the twilight years (=the last years of your life) is usually related to illness.4 →twilight worldExamples from the Corpustwilight• The inescapablepresence of doubt is a constantreminder of our responsibility to truth in a twilight world of truth and half-truth.• Theirs was a twilight world of hushedvoices, concealed books and illegalexhibitions.• It was almost twilight when they tied up at the AngleInletboatyard.• The sun is never visible; it is eternaltwilight.• Why demandattention now, when the Bulls are in what should be a glorioustwilight?• These women dwelt in a land where all was dim and shrouded in twilight.• In the twilight and without my glasses, I couldn't really tell.• The twilight sky was lavender and dark enough that Venus was out, hungabove a freshly mintedsicklemoon.• We stayedoutsidetilltwilight.in the twilight• Both looked eeriein the twilight.• The hermeneutics of the cross ought to lead us to quite different theological conclusions about living faithfully in the twilight of modernity.• The end glowedin the twilight.• It had come again this night, glazing over the hillsin the twilight.• The other is in the twilight of a memorable run.• She could barely make out the figure of a man in the twilight.• I wish I could stay in the twilight and never have to move, never have to talk to anyone.• I know she likes the blossoms of the appletreesin the twilight, but they are long gone.• It is because at this time the warning light is more easily visible in the twilight than in the daylight.twilight of• the twilight of the VictorianageOrigintwilight(1400-1500)twi-"two, twice" (from Old English) + light