Synonyms:
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
Meaning: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
Usage examples
'We are in the gloaming,' Becky answered softly.
When stars are glowing through day's gloaming glow, Reflecting from ocean's deep, mighty flow, At twilight, when no grim shadows of night, Like ghouls, have stalked in wake of the light.
But beneath this exterior there lay a deep, true nature, which found expression in twilit landscapes, the tenderness of cottage lights in the gloaming, vague silhouettes, and vague skies and fields.
The next moment they clattered over the drawbridge that spanned the narrow black gulph between the roadway and the wall, and the next were past the echoing arch of the great gateway and in the gray gloaming of the paved court-yard within.