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: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
          twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
          [syn: {dusk}, {gloaming}, {nightfall}, {evenfall}, {fall},
           {crepuscule}, {crepuscle}]
     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"
Source: WordNet® 2.0