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DUSK
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
(noun) the time of day immediately following sunset; “he loved the twilight”; “they finished before the fall of night”
dusk
(verb) become dusk
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dusk (countable and uncountable, plural dusks)
A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.
A darkish colour.
Synonyms
• (period of time): evenfall, nightfall, smokefall, vespers; see also dusk
Antonyms
• (period of time): dawn, daybreak; see also dawn
Hypernyms
• (period of time): twilight; see also twilight
Hyponyms
• astronomical dusk
• civil dusk
• nautical dusk
Verb
dusk (third-person singular simple present dusks, present participle dusking, simple past and past participle dusked)
(intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
(transitive) To make dusk.
Adjective
dusk (comparative dusker, superlative duskest)
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
Anagrams
• skud
Source: Wiktionary
Dusk, a. Etym: [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower.
Definition: Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.
Dusk, n.
1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
2. A darkish color. Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. Dryden.
Dusk, v. t.
Definition: To make dusk. [Archaic] After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth. Holland.
Dusk, v. i.
Definition: To grow dusk. [R.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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