Overview of noun twilight

The noun twilight has 3 senses

• twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle -- (the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night")


• 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)


• twilight -- (a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire")

Overview of adj twilight

The adj twilight has 1 sense

• dusky, twilight, twilit -- (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")