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Meaning of "twilight hours" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TWILIGHT HOURS

twilight hours  [ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt ˈaʊəz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TWILIGHT HOURS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Twilight hours is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TWILIGHT HOURS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of twilight hours in the English dictionary

The definition of twilight hours in the dictionary is the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TWILIGHT HOURS


after-hours
ˌɑːftərˈaʊəz
contours
ˈkɒntʊəz
flexihours
ˈflɛksɪˌaʊəz
hours
aʊəz
ours
aʊəz
scours
ˈskaʊəz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TWILIGHT HOURS

twigger
twiggier
twiggiest
twigging
twiggy
twigless
twiglike
twigloo
twigsome
twilight
Twilight of the Gods
twilight sleep
twilight world
twilight zone
twilit
twill
twilly
twin
twin bed
twin beds

WORDS THAT END LIKE TWILIGHT HOURS

banking hours
book of hours
business hours
consulting hours
daylight hours
late hours
licensing hours
little hours
office hours
opening hours
peak hours
school hours
shopping hours
small hours
surgery hours
the small hours
till all hours
Tours
twenty-four hours
visiting hours
waking hours

Synonyms and antonyms of twilight hours in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «twilight hours» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TWILIGHT HOURS

Find out the translation of twilight hours to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of twilight hours from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «twilight hours» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

黄昏的时光
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

horas del crepúsculo
570 millions of speakers

English

twilight hours
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गोधूलि घंटे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ساعات الشفق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сумерки часов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

horas crepusculares
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গোধূলি ঘন্টা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crépuscule
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jam senja
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dämmerung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

夕暮れの時間
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

황혼의 시간
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jam surup
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giờ hoàng hôn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அந்தி மணி நேரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संधिप्रकाश तास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Alacakaranlık saatleri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ore crepuscolari
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zmroku
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сутінки годин
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ore Twilight
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ώρες του λυκόφωτος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skemer uur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skymning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skumringen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of twilight hours

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TWILIGHT HOURS»

The term «twilight hours» is normally little used and occupies the 124.384 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of twilight hours
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TWILIGHT HOURS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «twilight hours» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «twilight hours» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about twilight hours

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TWILIGHT HOURS»

Discover the use of twilight hours in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to twilight hours and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Twilight Hours in the Adirondacks: The Daily Doings and ...
The Daily Doings and Several Sayings of Seven Sober, Social, Scientific Students in the Great Wilderness of Northern New York, Variously Versified in Seven Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven Lines Homer De Lois Sweet.
Homer De Lois Sweet, 1870
2
Twilight Hours
inspirational poems
Williams, Sarah, 2013
3
Twilight Predators: The Beginning
He could sense them hunting their prey in the twilight hours, draining them of their essence to keep their groups alive, to sustain life and growing stronger and larger in numbers as each cycle passed. Physically resembling the man-things that ...
Carol Camara, 2001
4
Songs of the Twilight Hours
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Edward Liddell, 2010
5
Twilight Hours, Their Memories and Yearnings: A Selection of ...
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text, possible missing pages, missing text and other issues beyond our control.
Lizzie May, 2010
6
Space and Astronomy Experiments
Many terrestrial organisms are described as crepuscular, meaning that they are most active during twilight hours. Crepuscular organisms avoid being out during the day in order to steer clear of animals that stalk and hunt prey during daylight ...
Pam Walker, Elaine Wood, 2010
7
Twilight of Jewish Philosophy
... allowing his nephew to study Greek wisdom, but only for this limited period each day?4 Emmanuel Levinas has suggested a different interpretation: 'an hour that is neither day nor night' might be a metaphorical allusion to 'the twilight hours [ ...
Dr Tamra Wright, 2013
8
Easter Edition. For The Love Of Parsley - A Guide To Your ...
Simply- Generally, your rabbit will be most active first thing in the morning and mid-evening. Bumph- For any Twilight fans out there you will be delighted to know that your rabbits are finely tuned to twilight. Twilight hours anyway. These are the ...
Samantha Wright
9
Fishes in Estuaries
For daylight feeders, it would be more advantageous to forage not during full daylight, but during the twilight hours (dusk and/or dawn), because they achieve cover from predation and, at the same time, take advantage of the vulnerability of the ...
M. Elliott, Krystal L. Hemingway, 2008
10
With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman
freedom for the play of creative imagination, a vesper service; these were called Twilight Hours. Each Twilight Hour was different in form and texture. I knew there was a felt need in the congregation, with its diversity of religious background, ...
Howard Thurman, 1981

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Twilight hours [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/twilight-hours>. Apr 2024 ».
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