Day and Twilight

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Day noun - The first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance.

Usage example: at the break of day I was relieved to realize that I had survived another night in the wilderness

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Twilight is an antonym for day.

Nearby Word: daytime

Twilight noun - The time of day immediately following sunset.

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Day is an antonym for twilight.

best	best day	best twilight
regular	regular day	regular twilight
certain	certain day	certain twilight
original	original day	original twilight
Other adjectives: actual, entire, real, great, novel, lovely, early, past, last, different, fifth.

Twilight — a time of day shortly after sunset or before sunrise, where it isn't as bright as day, but it's also not as dark as night.

Source: Twilight
Neither is "Night." Nor "Afternoon," or "Dawn," or "Dusk," or "Sunset," or any other time of day (since they're immaterial, after all)... but "Twilight" is.

Source: Video Game / Scribblenauts
Twilight, when Bella is on her honeymoon, about a day after her first day of sex.

Source: Morning Sickness

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