Nightfall

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nightfall \Night"fall`\, n.
     The close of the day; the arrival of the night; the period at
     and just after dusk. --Swift.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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