Tales from the Twilight World

tales noun

— (law) A person available to fill vacancies in a jury. — (law) A book or register of people available to fill jury vacancies. — (law) A writ to summon people to court to fill vacancies in a jury.

from Preposition

— When something is from someone, the person gave or sent it. I got a gift from my grandmother today. — When someone is from a place, that's where they started. I am Chinese. I come from Hunan province. Sorry I'm late. I just came from school. — You use from to talk about distances between thing in space or time. Saturn is far from earth. School is 5km from my home. The year 2515 is a long time from now.

the Determiner

— Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist. Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book." — Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special. Are you the John Smith that I went to school with? — Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned The poor are always with us. — Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs. You are the best.

twilight

— noun (= fall) the time of day immediately following sunset he loved the twilight they finished before the fall of night — noun the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth — noun a condition of decline following successes in the twilight of the empire — adjective (= dusky, twilit) lighted by or as if by twilight The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn — Henry Fielding the twilight glow of the sky a boat on a twilit river

world Noun

— The Earth. Our world needs to be cared for. — The . I love you more than anybody else in the world. — The setting of a group of people. They were in their own world as they talked about trains nobody else knew about. — A planet. I wonder if there is life on other worlds.