1. (

• twilight ,
• dusk ,
• gloaming ,
• gloam ,
• nightfall ,
• evenfall ,
• fall ,
• crepuscule ,
• crepuscle

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

2. (

• twilight

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

3. (

• twilight ,

) a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire" ;

1. (

• dusky ,
• twilight ,
• 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" ;