last light
Final evening glow
Last light is the final moments of daylight before darkness falls—the fading glow after sunset when visibility remains but is diminishing.
In military usage, it marks a specific tactical moment: the end of the period when operations requiring natural light can be conducted.
We need to reach camp before last light.
The phrase carries a quiet finality, whether describing the day's end or, figuratively, someone's final moments of life or consciousness.
- duskDimming after sundown
- twilightLight after sunset
- sunsetDay yielding to darkness
- setting sunStar descending below horizon
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
glow · golden hour · magic hour · dimming · evening · afterglow · nightfall · long shadows · shadows · horizon · lingering · embers · candle · dying · farewell · flicker · waning · darkness
- nighttimemidnight, nightfall, night sky, nighttime, starry sky
- daypartsdawn, sunrise, morning, forenoon, midmorning
- dim lighttwilight, dusk, gloaming, semidarkness, dimness
- sunrise/sunsetdawn, dusk, twilight, daybreak, nightfall
- twilightdusk, dawn, gloaming, eventide, nightfall
- firstsfirst, initial, beginning, start, opening
last lightfirst light
Earliest morning brightness
dawn · daybreak · sunrise · sunup · crack of dawn
last lightfirst light
Earliest morning brightness
beginning · commencement · opening · start · outset
last lightfirst light
Earliest morning brightness
high noon · morning glow · brightening · broad daylight · midday sun
last, light, lasting, lastly, lasted, lasts, lights, lighted, lit