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Another word for nightfall

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Noun

  1. The period between afternoon and nighttime

    See also:

    start

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Another word for nightfall

Noun
  1. See also:

    night

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • At nightfall the very few guns still to go were hurried off to the jetties.

  • Wellington's position at nightfall was very different, and can hardly be termed safe or even satisfactory.

  • It was past nightfall, and shadows and light from the hearth danced around him.

  • Before nightfall on the 20th of August the canal was wholly in British hands.

  • Be out of here by nightfall, Kris said at last, his voice quiet and hard.

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