About The Word Dusk

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Dusk

Dusk Meaning & Definition
Dusk Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dusk?

[n] a state of diffused or dim illumination
[n] the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dusk: evenfall | fall | gloaming | nightfall | twilight | twilight

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dusk: bad light | blackish | broad day | brown of dusk | brownness | caliginous | candlelight | candlelighting | cocklight | crepuscular | crepuscule | dark | dark-colored | darken | darkish | darkishness | darkle | darksome | darksomeness | dawn | day | day glow | daylight | dayshine | daytide | daytime | deadness | dim | dim light | dimmish | dimness | dimpsy | drabness | dullness | duskiness | duskingtide | duskness | dusky | evening | evensong | eventide | flatness | full sun | funereal | gloam | gloaming | gloom | glooming | gloomy | grave | green flash | grow dark | grow dim | half-light | lack of sparkle | lackluster | lifelessness | light of day | lower | lusterlessness | mat | mat finish | midday sun | murk | murkiness | murksome | murky | nightfall | nigrescent | noonlight | noontide light | obscure | owllight | partial darkness | ray of sunshine | sad | semidark | shine | sober | somber | somberness | sombrous | subfusc | sun spark | sunbeam | sunbreak | sunburst | sundown | sunlight | sunset | sunsetty | sunshine | swart | swarthy | tenebrous | twilight | twilighty | unilluminated | vesper | vespertine

See Also | eve | evening | eventide | hour | night | semidarkness | time of day

Dusk In Webster's Dictionary

\Dusk\, a. [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower. ???.] 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. 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. To grow dusk. [R.] --Chaucer.

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