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Definition of Twilight zone

1. Noun. The lowest level of the ocean to which light can reach.

2. Noun. The ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both). "In that no man's land between negotiation and aggression"

Definition of Twilight zone

1. Noun. A region or context located in between others and therefore not subject to their norms. ¹

2. Noun. (figuratively) a region in which surreal, supernatural, or fantastic events occur ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Twilight Zone

twights twigil twigils twigless twiglike twigloo twigloos twigs twigsome twilight

twilight(a) twilight sleep twilight state twilight vision twilight years twilight zone (current term) twilight zones twilightish twilights twilighty

twilit twilitten twill twill weave twilled twillies twilling twillings twills twilly

Literary usage of Twilight zone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"... THE twilight zone BETWEEN VOCATIONAL RE-EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICE David Helm Holbrook, Director of Civilian Relief, Northern Division, ..."

2. The Fourteenth Amendment and the States: A Study of the Operation of the by Charles Wallace Collins (1912)
"... CORPORATIONS AND THE twilight zone THE great problems facing the nation when the Fourteenth Amendment was being adopted were social and political rather ..."

3. Transactions of the Commonwealth Club of California by Commonwealth Club of California (1917)
"9 THE twilight zone OF AUTHORITY The subject of the doubtful zone of ... State Control to investigate and delimit the "twilight zone" between the two ..."

4. The Conquest of the Old Southwest: The Romantic Story of the Early Pioneers by Archibald Henderson (1920)
"... LONG HUNTERS IN THE twilight zone The long Hunters principally resided In the upper countries of Virginia & North Carolina on New River & Holston River, ..."

5. Mathematical Geography by Willis Ernest Johnson (1907)
"There is thus a twilight zone immediately beyond the circle of illumination, and outside of this zone is the true night. Figure 50 represents these Fig. ..."

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