twilit
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: twīʹlĭt, IPA(key): /ˈtwaɪlɪt/
Verb
[edit]twilit
- simple past and past participle of twilight
Alternative forms
[edit]- (simple past): twilighted
- (past participle): twilitten, twilighted
Adjective
[edit]twilit (not comparable)
- Illuminated by or as if by twilight.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables — Will o’ the Mill, page 79:
- He was like someone lying in twilit, formless, preëxistence, and stretching out his hands lovingly towards many-coloured, many-sounding life.
- 1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 10, in The Sirens of Titan[1], New York: Dial, published 2006, page 241:
- The effect of the closing inside the booths was to turn the line of concessions into a twilit tunnel.
Translations
[edit]illuminated by twilight
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