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How to pronounce “twilight”
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Pronunciation guide for twilight
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of twilight with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- The discoveries awaiting us in the ocean's twilight zone
known as the twilight zone.
- Definition summary
- The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
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How to pronounce twilight
The discoveries awaiting us in the ocean's twilight zone
known as the twilight zone.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “twilight”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
- The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
- Any faint light through which something is seen.
- (astronomy) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
- (figurative, by extension) An in-between or fading condition through which something is perceived.
- [Adjective]
- Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure.
- Synonym of mesopelagic (“Describing the pelagic zone of the ocean between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones, characterized by very minimal light.”)
- [Verb]
- (transitive, poetic) To illuminate faintly.
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