The time of day immediately following sunset:
— He loved the twilight.

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

Roget 126: evening, eve; decline of day, fall of day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting^†; eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the sun, cock-shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime.    afternoon, postmeridian, p.   m. autumn, fall, fall of the leaf; autumnal equinox; Indian summer, St.    Luke's summer, St.    Martin's summer. midnight; dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night, witching time of night; winter; killing time.    ... 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

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

Dutch: avondschemering, schemering

The diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth.

Dutch: tweelicht, deemstering, schemer, schemerdonker, schemering, schemerlicht

A condition of decline following successes.

Polish: schyłek

Lighted by or as if by twilight:
— The twilight glow of the sky.

synonyms: dusky, twilit.