· the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
Synonym(s): dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
Hypernym(s): hour, time_of_day
· the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
Hypernym(s): light, visible_light, visible_radiation
· a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire"
Hypernym(s): decline, declination
· 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"