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tweenlight

tweenlight noun: the period between dusk and nightfall; twilight.

Noun

tweenlight (uncountable)

  1. (dialectal, rare) The period between dusk and nightfall; twilight.
    • Faith, sir, she says that Fergus has had an outforce lying in the hills yonder these three days, and waits an opportunity of surprising the fort — that they had moved down this tweenlight, and were sweeping along by the glens two hours ago; [...]1832, H. Coates, The water queen, or, The mermaid of loch Lene, and other tales
    • All this I understood as in a mist dimly, or 'tweenlight; yet I felt a movement of some sort upon the horizon of intellectual attainment, [...]1847, John William Parry, The Yeoman Philosophising on His Poverty

Forms of tweenlight

alternative form'tweenlight
alternative form'tween-light

Origin of tweenlight

From Old English twēonlēoht (“twilight”, literally “double-/doubtful-/uncertain-light”). The alternative spellings are due to a misassociation with between, erroneously interpreting tweenlight as if it were a shortening of between-light.

Questions about tweenlight

What does tweenlight mean?
Tweenlight means the period between dusk and nightfall; twilight.
What part of speech is tweenlight?
Tweenlight is a noun.

Words near tweenlight in the dictionary

  1. tweening
  2. tweenings
  3. tweenish
  4. tweenism
  5. tweenisms
  6. tweenlight
  7. tweenness
  8. tweenpreneur
  9. tweenpreneurs
  10. tweens
  11. tweeny

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