Twilight
WordNet
noun
(1) The diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
(2) A condition of decline following successes
"In the twilight of the empire"
(3) The time of day immediately following sunset
"He loved the twilight"
"They finished before the fall of night"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From twi- + light; ‘second light, half-light’. Compare Low German twelecht, German Zwielicht.
Noun
- The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
- I could just make out her face in the twilight.
- The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
- It was twilight by the time I got back home.
- Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
- The twilight of probability. —John Locke.
Adjective
twilight
- Pertaining to or resembling twilight
- O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —Alexander Pope.