"civil twilight" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: civil twilights [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} civil twilight (countable and uncountable, plural civil twilights)
  1. The period in which the sun is less than six degrees below the horizon in the morning and evening. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (period in which the sun is less than six degrees below the horizon): burgerlijke schemering [feminine] (Dutch), porvarillinen hämärä (Finnish), bürgerliche Dämmerung [feminine] (German), almannarökkur [neuter] (Icelandic), 市民薄明 (shimin hakumei) (alt: しみんはくめい) (Japanese), 시민박명 (siminbangmyeong) (Korean), гражданские сумерки (graždanskije sumerki) [feminine, plural] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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