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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NIGHTFALL, n. The close of the day; evening.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1700 the close of the day ; dusk

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. the onset of night; the end of daylight.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nightfall Night"fall`, n. The close of the day. --Swift.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Nightfall is the time of day when it starts to get dark. I need to get to Lyon by nightfall... = dusk