Twilight vs Afternoon - What's the difference?
twilight | afternoon |
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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The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
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*:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
(lb) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:The twilight of probability.
Pertaining to or resembling twilight.
The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening; the part of the day following noon which is daylight all year round; the second half of the working day (in regular office hours).
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
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, chapter=3 * 1966 , (The Kinks) - (Sunny Afternoon)
As nouns the difference between twilight and afternoon
is that twilight is 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 while afternoon is the part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening; the part of the day following noon which is daylight all year round; the second half of the working day (in regular office hours).As an adjective twilight
is pertaining to or resembling twilight.twilight
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* evenfall, eventide, gloamingCoordinate terms
* evening * golden hour * nightfall * sundownHyponyms
* dawn * duskDerived terms
* astronomical twilight * civil twilight * nautical twilight * twilightish * twilighty * twilight years * twilight zoneAdjective
(-)- O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —(Alexander Pope).
See also
* crepuscularafternoon
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Alternative forms
* afternoone (archaic)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
citation, passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}
- And I love to live so pleasantly / Live this life of luxury / Lazing on a sunny afternoon / In the summertime
