Dictionary Definition
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]
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Translations
the close of the day; the coming of night
- Arabic: هُبوط ,الليْل
- Czech: soumrak
- Danish: skumring
- Dutch: schemering
- Estonian: videvik
- Finnish: iltahämärä
- French: tombée de la nuit
- German: der Einbruch der Nacht
- Greek: σούρουπο, νύχτωμα
- Hungarian: alkony
- Icelandic: rökkurbil, ljósaskipti, næturkoma, nótt
- Indonesian: senjakala
- Italian: crepuscolo
- Japanese: 日暮
- Korean: 해질녘, 황혼
- Latin: annoctatio
- Latvian: krēsla; tumsas iestāšanās
- Lithuanian: sutema, prieblanda
- Norwegian: mørkets frambrudd, skumring
- Polish: zmrok
- Portuguese: anoitecer , crepúsculo
- Romanian: căderea, nopţii
- Russian: вечер, сумерки
- Sindhi: (sanjhā)
- Slovak: súmrak
- Slovenian: mrak
- Spanish: anochecer
- Swedish: kvällning, nattens (mörkrets) inbrott
- Turkish: akşam karanlığı, akşam vakti
Extensive Definition
The word Nightfall may refer to one of the
following:
Novels, short stories, and comics
- "Nightfall," an influential 1941 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, later adapted into a radio program (c. 1950), novel (1990), and two low-budget films (1988 and 2000) of the same name
- "Nightfall," a 1947 short story by Arthur C. Clarke
- "Nightfall," a 2003 short story from Accelerando by Charles Stross, set in his Manfred Macx series.
- Nightfall, the title and lead character in two fantasy books (1993 and 2005) written by Mickey Zucker Reichert
- Night Fall, a 2004 novel written by Nelson DeMille
- From Elfquest, Nightfall is a female elf character
- Nightfall, a DC Comics Supervillain and part of the Cadre
- Nightfall is a comic written by Scott O. Brown, released by Platnium Studios.
Music
- Nightfall, a Greek melodic death metal band.
- Nightfall, a 1987 album by Candlemass
- A Blind Guardian song, "Nightfall," from their 1998 album Nightfall in Middle-Earth
- "Nightfall," a song by Stratovarius, from the 1995 album Fourth Dimension
- "Nightfall," a song by Amorphis.
Video games
- Nightfall, the first real time 3D adventure game, released in 1998
- Guild Wars Nightfall (2006), the third chapter of the computer game series, Guild Wars
- Nightfall Games, creators of SLA Industries
- Nightfall, a German-based LPMud that has been running since 1990
Other media
- Nightfall, the title of the 1957 movie directed by Jacques Tourneur
- Operation Nightfall is a fictional operation in television series 24
See also
nightfall in French: Nightfall