twilight hour
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3.5
- noun
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hora del crepúsculo
- Bad Belly spent the twilight hours stripping bark from the trees.
Examples
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Night sets begin before sundown or during the twilight hours, while herds of dolphins can still be seen, extend into darkness, and are usually completed before midnight.
Academic text (1992) -
Data were divided into night sets (sets started during daylight or twilight hours but with any portion of the backdown occurring in darkness) and day sets (sets started during daylight hours and backdown procedures completed in daylight or twilight hours).
Academic text (1992) -
I thought it might be useful to you in the twilight hours.
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In New Orleans, it starts during the twilight hours in late April.
Academic text (2003) -
He spent his twilight hours reading scrolls from the senate.
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At the Haleakala Observatory, the adaptive optics system was used primarily in twilight hours.
Academic text (1994) -
Years after the incident, in the twilight hours of the short winter days, the shepherds would sit with their families in their narrow stone huts, listening to the bleating of the sheep, and tell of the crazy she-devil with the red hair and the giant breasts, who boded ill to men.
Fiction book (1998) -
Data were divided into night sets (sets started during daylight or twilight hours but with any portion of the backdown occurring in darkness) and day sets (sets started during daylight hours and backdown procedures completed in daylight or twilight hours).
Academic text (1992) -
During the twilight hour, the sky is painted with hues of orange and purple.
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Many creatures venture out to feed during the twilight hour, when the light begins to fade.
Synonyms
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1.0
The part of the day from late afternoon until night
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1.0
The time in the evening when the sun goes below the horizon and daylight fades
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1.0
The time just after the sun goes down before it is fully dark
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1.2
The time in the evening when the sun goes below the horizon
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2.1
The time in the evening when it becomes dark and night begins
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2.4
Soft light in the sky just before sunrise or after sunset
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1.1
The latter part of the day when it becomes dark
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9.9
The soft light after sunset before it becomes dark
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2.7
The time of day when the sun goes below the horizon
The time just after sunset when the sky gets dark
The time just before it becomes dark
Antonyms
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'twilight hour' is directly compositional: 'twilight' names the time of dim evening light and 'hour' denotes a time period, so together they mean an hour during twilight. There is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift and similar constructions exist cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words would understand the meaning.
Etymology
The expression twilight hour paints a picture of the time after the sun goes down but before it is fully dark, when the sky still has soft light called twilight. That's why the phrase means the calm, partly lit hour 'between sunset and full darkness'.