TWELFTH NIGHT


Meaning of TWELFTH NIGHT in English

ˌTwelfth ˈNight BrE AmE

1 . the evening before the ↑ epiphany (6 January), which represents the end of the ↑ Christmas period. Christmas cards and decorations are usually taken down on Twelfth Night

2 . a humorous play by William ↑ Shakespeare , which tells a complicated story about a young woman called Viola, who dresses as a boy to work as a servant of the Duke Orsino. Eventually she marries the Duke and finds her brother, Sebastian, whom she believed to be dead. ⇨ ↑ Malvolio

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.