Dämmerung — meaning in English

English meaning

• dawn noun The time of day when light first appears in the sky before the sun rises.
• evening noun The part of the day between afternoon and night.
• twilight noun The soft, dim light in the sky just before sunrise or, more commonly, just after sunset.

Senses

Dämmerung is used for these senses in English:

• crepuscule (now, _, rare) Twilight.
• dawn (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
• dawnlight The light of dawn.
• evening (figuratively) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
• twilight 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.
• twilight The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
• twilight Any faint light through which something is seen.

dawn — full definition

1. noun The time of day when light first appears in the sky before the sun rises.
2. verb To begin to become clear or obvious to someone, often suddenly.

evening — full definition

1. noun The part of the day between afternoon and night.
2. noun A social gathering held in the evening.

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