TWILIGHT

[noun] [U] - the period just before it becomes completely dark in the eveningI could make out a dark figure in the twilight.They descended the stairs and went out into a thickening twilight.The streets became increasingly eerie in a fake twilight created by a smog of mist and smoke.(figurative) Keith is only one of several players in the twilight of (= in the last years of/at the end of) his career.Twilight is used to describe a way of life characterized by uncertainty and difficult or slightly illegal situations, which is on the edge of normal society.The remaining inhabitants of this once-prosperous market town have got used to a twilight existence.He said that leaving a secure job for 'the twilight world of pop music' was a mistake.I'm not just talking about people well into their twilight years (= the last years of their lives).The twilight zone is an area where two different ways of life or states of existence meet.the twilight zone between life and deathThere are hundreds of thousands of old people living in that long twilight zone of extreme debilitation and touched by senility.