TWILIGHT ZONE
Dictionary entry overview: What does twilight zone mean?
• TWILIGHT ZONE (noun)
The noun TWILIGHT ZONE has 2 senses:
1. the lowest level of the ocean to which light can reach
2. the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both)
Familiarity information: TWILIGHT ZONE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TWILIGHT ZONE (noun)
Meaning:
The lowest level of the ocean to which light can reach
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("twilight zone" is a kind of...):
Davy Jones; Davy Jones's locker; ocean bottom; ocean floor; sea bottom; seabed (the bottom of a sea or ocean)
Meaning:
The ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
twilight zone; no man's land
Context examples:
but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal / in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity / in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression
Hypernyms ("twilight zone" is a kind of...):
ambiguity; equivocalness (unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning)
