twilight
adjective
1. lighted by or as if by twilight
- the twilight glow of the sky
- a boat on a twilit river
Similar word(s): dark, dusky, twilit
Sentences with twilight as an adjective:
- O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —Alexander Pope.
noun
1. the time of day immediately following sunset
- he loved the twilight
Similar word(s): crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall
Definition categories: time, hour
2. the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
Definition categories: phenomenon, light
3. a condition of decline following successes
- in the twilight of the empire
Definition categories: state, declination, decline
Sentences with twilight as a noun:
- I could just make out her face in the twilight.
- It was twilight by the time I got back home.