The time of day immediately following sunset.

synonyms: crepuscle, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight.

Roget 125: morning, morn, forenoon, a.   m., prime, dawn, daybreak; dayspring^†, foreday^†, sunup; peep of day, break of day; aurora; first blush of the morning, first flush of the morning, prime of the morning; twilight, crepuscule, sunrise; cockcrow, cockcrowing^†; the small hours, the wee hours of the morning.    spring; vernal equinox, first point of Aries.    noon; midday, noonday; noontide, meridian, prime; nooning, noontime.    summer, midsummer.    ... show more

Roget 422: dimness etc. adj.; darkness etc. 421; paleness etc. (light color) 429.    half light, demi-jour; partial shadow, partial eclipse; shadow of a shade; glimmer, gliming^†; nebulosity; cloud etc. 353; eclipse.    aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time^†; break of day, daybreak, dawn.    moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade^†, moonshine; starlight, owl's light, candlelight, rushlight, firelight; farthing candle.    ... show more

Dutch: avondschemering, schemering