twilight
[noun]
Synonyms: dusk, dimness, evening, gloaming (Scot. or poetic), gloom, half-light, sundown, sunset

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Related Words: afterglow, afterlight, decline, end

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

twi‧light /ˈtwaɪlaɪt/ noun
[Date: 1400-1500; Origin: twi- 'two, twice' (from Old English) + light]

1. [uncountable] the small amount of light in the sky as the day ends
in the twilight
The end of the cigarette glowed in the twilight.

2. [uncountable] the time when day is just starting to become night Synonym : dusk
at twilight
romantic walks along the beach at twilight

3. [singular] the period just before the end of the most active part of someone’s life
twilight of
in the twilight of her acting career
Depression in the twilight years (=the last years of your life) is usually related to illness.

4. twilight world literary a strange situation involving mystery, dishonesty etc
twilight world of
the twilight world of espionage

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

twilight
noun
ADJ. gathering, thickening
TWILIGHT + NOUN world (figurative) the twilight world of the occult
zone (figurative) the twilight zone between living and merely existing
years (figurative) a forgotten man who spent his twilight years alone
PREP. at ~, in/into the ~ She walked away into the thickening twilight.
PHRASES in the twilight of your career/life

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲