twilight

Adjective

• lighted by or as if by twilight
  • The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn-Henry Fielding
    
  • the twilight glow of the sky
    
  • a boat on a twilit river
    

Noun

• a condition of decline following successes
  • in the twilight of the empire
    

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

• the time of day immediately following sunset
  • he loved the twilight
    
  • they finished before the fall of night
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  dusky , twilight(a) , twilit , dusk , gloaming , gloam , nightfall , evenfall , fall , crepuscule , crepuscle