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
When nightfall came it was still raining.
Nightfall brought General Marlanx in from the camps outside the gates.
It was also late in the afternoon and Dick was quite sure that they would not reach Sulphur Springs before nightfall.
And it takes the closest kind of community team-work in the newt colony to get things anywhere near cleaned up by nightfall.
But just after nightfall they got in, and he was content to leave unharnessing the horses and baiting them to Simon, Mrs. Cork's son.
After a whole day spent in this employment, he would return about nightfall with several cocoanut shells filled with different descriptions of kelp.
The colonel obtained leave to go up the Rappahannock until nightfall, but only his own regiment, now reduced to less than four hundred men, was allotted to him.
This boyish desire led him deeper into the wood than it was wise for him to go alone, for it was near nightfall, and wild creatures haunted the forest in those days.
Take the advice of Angelo Kuprasso and avoid the streets after nightfall. Stamboul is no safe place nowadays for quiet men.' I asked him to name a hotel, and he rattled off a list from which I chose one that sounded modest and in keeping with our get-up.
Hereupon some brought dried wood, others from the meadows leaves for beds which they gathered in abundance for strewing, whilst others were twirling sticks to get fire; others again were mixing wine in the bowl and making ready the feast, after sacrificing at nightfall to Apollo Ecbasius.