Noun
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a condition of decline following successes
"in the twilight of the empire"
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the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
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the time of day immediately following sunset
"he loved the twilight"
"they finished before the fall of night"
Adjective
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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"