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