English

Dusk

Noun

dusk ‎(plural dusks)

1. 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.
2. A darkish colour.
   • Dryden

     Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

Synonyms

• evenfall, nightbreak, smokefall, vespers

Antonyms

• dawn, daybreak

Hypernyms

• twilight

Hyponyms

• astronomical dusk
• civil dusk
• nautical dusk

Translations

See also

• crepuscular
• gloaming
• twilight
• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, evening, dusk, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

Verb

dusk ‎(third-person singular simple present dusks, present participle dusking, simple past and past participle dusked)

1. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
   • Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27

     I see the air benighted

     And all the dusking dales,

     And lamps in England lighted,

2. (transitive) To make dusk.
   • Holland

     After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.

Translations

Adjective

dusk ‎(comparative dusker, superlative duskest)

1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
   • Milton

     A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

Anagrams

• skud

See also

• dusk at OneLook Dictionary Search