twilight

adj : 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"

[syn: {dusky}, {twilight(a)}, {twilit}]

n 1: a state of diffused or dim illumination [syn: {dusk}]

2: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the

twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:

{dusk}, {gloaming}, {nightfall}, {evenfall}, {fall}]

3: the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the

horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of

the earth

4: a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight

of the empire"