twilight hour
Day's fading edge
The twilight hour is the period just after sunset or just before sunrise when the sky holds a soft, diffused light—neither full day nor complete darkness.
The phrase often carries romantic or melancholic overtones, suggesting a liminal time suited to reflection or transition: We walked the beach during the twilight hour.
Figuratively, it can mark the closing phase of something: the twilight hour of his career.
- duskDimming after sundown
- gloamingPoetic term for dusk
- sunsetDay yielding to darkness
- eveningLate day period
- dimmingDecreasing in brightness
shadows · long shadows · silhouettes · lamplighters · streetlamps · afterglow · amber · haze · evening star · stillness · quiet moments · liminal · threshold · between · in between · nocturne · vespers · homecoming
- poetic phrasesonce upon a time, happily ever after, star-crossed lovers, sweet sorrow, eternal flame
- closing timeclosing time, clock out, end of shift, quitting time, clocking out
twilight hourhigh noon
Solar zenith, or confrontation
midday · noon · noontime · solar noon · broad daylight
twilight hourblazing sun
Intensely hot daylight
full sun · harsh light · pitch darkness · pitch black · blackness
twilight hourprime
Readying for action
heyday · zenith · peak · high point · golden age
twilight, hour, light, lights, lighted, lighting, lighter, lightest, enlighten