twilight

Meanings

• the time of day immediately following sunset
  • "he loved the 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
• a condition of decline following successes
  • "in the twilight of the empire"
• lighted by or as if by twilight; -Henry Fielding
  • "the twilight glow of the sky"

Synonyms

crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, dusky, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilit