twilight meaning and definition

TWILIGHT noun

Definition of twilight (noun)

1. 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
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
3. a condition of decline following successes
   • "in the twilight of the empire"

TWILIGHT adjective

Definition of twilight (adjective)

1. 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"
   • synonyms: dusky, twilit