twilight

Noun
  1. The time of day immediately following sunset (synset 115194468)
    "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
    is a type of: hour, time of day - clock time
    subtypes: night - a shortening of nightfall
    is a part of: eve, even, evening, eventide - the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
    same as: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall
  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 (synset 111536368)
    is a type of: light, visible light, visible radiation - (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
  3. A condition of decline following successes (synset 114447144)
    "in the twilight of the empire"
    is a type of: declination, decline - a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
Adjective
  1. Lighted by or as if by twilight (synset 300276352)
    "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
    similar to: dark - devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
    same as: dusky, twilit

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