English-Finnish translations for twilight

Definition of twilight

  • The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and 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 this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness
  • The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon
  • Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure
  • To illuminate faintly

Examples

  • I could just make out her face in the twilight
  • It was twilight by the time I got back home
  • The twilight of ones life

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