/ English Dictionary |
CREPUSCULE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time of day immediately following sunset
Example:
they finished before the fall of night
Synonyms:
crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("crepuscule" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crepuscule"):
night (a shortening of nightfall)
Holonyms ("crepuscule" is a part of...):
eve; even; evening; eventide (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall))
Derivation:
crepuscular (like twilight; dim)