Synonyms of the word

crepuscle

• n. Alternative form of crepuscule.

crepuscule

• n. (now rare) Twilight.

dusk

• n. A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night,…
• n. A darkish colour.
• v. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
• v. (transitive) To make dusk.
• adj. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

evenfall

• n. (poetic) dusk, twilight.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

gloam

• n. (obsolete) gloaming, twilight.
• v. To begin to grow dark; to grow dusky.
• v. To be sullen or morose.

gloaming

• n. (poetry, Scotland, Britain, Northern England) twilight, as at early morning or (especially) early evening;…
• n. (obsolete) sullenness; melancholy.

hour

• n. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
• n. A season, moment, time or stound.
• n. (poetic) The time.
• n. (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
• n. (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

nightfall

• n. The close of the day; the coming of night.

twilight

• n. The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned…
• n. The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
• n. (astronomy) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
• n. Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
• adj. Pertaining to or resembling twilight.