Main entry: twilight
Definition: the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
Main entry: twilight
Definition: a condition of decline following successes
Usage: in the twilight of the empire
Main entry: twilight, fall, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, dusk, crepuscle, crepuscule, nightfall
Definition: the time of day immediately following sunset
Usage: he loved the twilight; they finished before the fall of night
Main entry: twilight, twilit, dusky
Definition: lighted by or as if by twilight
Usage: 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