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twilight

• (s) 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
  dusky, twilit,

Nouns

• (n) the time of day immediately following sunset
  • he loved the twilight
  • they finished before the fall of night
  crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, fall,
• (n) the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
• (n) a condition of decline following successes
  • in the twilight of the empire

Synonyms

dusky twilit crepuscle crepuscule dusk evenfall gloam gloaming nightfall fall

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