the time of day immediately following sunset; he loved the twilight; they finished before the fall of night

[ Syn: dusk , gloaming , gloam , nightfall , evenfall , fall , crepuscule , crepuscle ]

the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth

a condition of decline following successes; in the twilight of the empire'

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

[ Syn: dusky , twilit ]