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Definition: Half-light |
Half-lightNoun1. A grayish light (as at dawn or dusk or in dim interiors). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "half-light" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Half-light" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Half-light" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 53 | 46,657 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "half-light"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mugëtirë (dusk, duskiness, nightfall, twilight), gjysmëhije (Penumbra). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | здрач (cockshot, dusk, duskiness, eventide, twilight), полумрак (dimness, dusk, semi-darkness, shade, twilight). (various references) | |
Czech | polosvìtlý. (various references) | |
German | zwielicht (dusk, twilight), dämmerung (dawn, dusk, evening twilight, gloaming, twilight), dämmerlicht (dusk, gloom, twilight). (various references) | |
Hungarian | félhomály (dusk, semidarkness, semi-darkness, subdued light, twilight). (various references) | |
Italian | semioscurit (semi-darkness), penombra (dim light, gloom, Penumbra, semi-darkness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 薄明かり (dim or faint light, half-light of early morning, twilight). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うすあかり (dim or faint light, half-light of early morning, twilight). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alf-lighthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tranquilo (calm, cool-headed, deep-seated, easeful, even-minded, orderly, pacific, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, piping, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, rested, restful, sedate, self-collected, self-possessed, settled, smooth, sober-blooded, still, stilly, tranquil, unconcerned, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirred), sossegado (calm, pacific, peaceable, peace-loving, placid, quiescent, quiet, restful, sedate, sequestered, serene, silent, sober-blooded, still, stilly, tranquil), silencioso (damper, muffler, noiseless, quiescent, quiet, silencer, silent, soundless, speechless, tuneless), sereno (calm, canny, composed, cool-headed, dew, even-minded, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, piping, placid, quiet, reposeful, restful, self-collected, self-possessed, serene, smooth, sober-blooded, staid, stilly, tranquil, unflappable, unruffled, untroubled), sem rudo, imvel (immobile, immovable), calmo (calm, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, douce, even, even-minded, halcyon, imperturbable, irresponsive, leisurely, mild, noiseless, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, philosophic, philosophical, phlegmatic, placable, placid, plodder, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, sedate, self-collected, sequestered, serene, smooth, sober, sober-blooded, staid, still, stilly, tranquil, uneventful, unprovoked, unruffled, unstirred, untroubled), calado (dumb, gloomily, mute, quiet, reticent, secretive, silent, speechless, tongue-tied). (various references) | |
Russian | неяркий (quiet), полутон (half tone, halftone, semitone, undertint, undertone). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | polumrak, polumračan. (various references) | |
Swedish | halvljus (dimmers, semitransparent). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | неяскравий (quiet, sullen), напівтемрява (semidarkness, shade, shadow), півтон (semitone, undertone). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-h-h-i-l-l-t" | |
-3 letters: alight, flight, thalli. | |
-4 letters: faith, fight, filth, flail, glial, hight, laigh, laith, lathi, light, thigh, thill. | |
-5 letters: alif, alit, fail, fall, fiat, fila, fill, flag, flat, flit, gait, gall, ghat, gift, gill, gilt, glia, haft, hail, half, hall, halt, hath, high, hila, hill, hilt, lath, lati, lift, lilt, tail, tali, tall, till. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-h-h-i-l-l-t" | |
+1 letter: flashlight. | |
+2 letters: flashlights. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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