TWILIGHT

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

• (noun) a condition of decline following successes

  "in the twilight of the empire"

• (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset

  "he loved the twilight", "they finished before the fall of night"

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

• (adj.) lighted by or as if by twilight

  "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn", "the twilight glow of the sky", "a boat on a twilit river"

  synonyms : dusky , twilit

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