| nightfall | | |
| n. (time) | 1. crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight | the time of day immediately following sunset.; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" |
| ~ even, evening, eventide, eve | the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall).; "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake" |
| ~ night | a shortening of nightfall.; "they worked from morning to night" |
| ~ time of day, hour | clock time.; "the hour is getting late" |
| twilight | | |
| n. (phenomenon) | 1. 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. |
| ~ light, visible light, visible radiation | (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation.; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window" |
| n. (state) | 2. twilight | a condition of decline following successes.; "in the twilight of the empire" |
| ~ declination, decline | a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state. |
| adj. | 3. dusky, twilight, twilit | lighted by or as if by twilight.; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river" |
| ~ dark | devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black.; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat" |
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