dusk

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/dʌsk/

noun 3verb 2adj 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

approaching, gathering

DUSK + VERB

approach, fall, gather

As evening approaches, the street lights begin to turn on automatically.

PREP

after ~, at ~, before ~, in the ~

The children played outside until dusk fell and their parents called them in for dinner.

PHRASES

from dawn to dusk

Definitions

adj

Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

noun

The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.

Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.

We caught a beautiful view of the dusk.

A darkish colour.

Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

The condition of being dusky; duskiness

verb

To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.

I see the air benighted And all the dusking dales, And lamps in England lighted,

To make dusk.

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

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Synonyms

noun — the time of day immediately following sunset

twilight
gloaming
gloam
nightfall
evenfall
fall
crepuscule
crepuscle

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

from dusk to dawn

From sunset to sunrise.

from dawn to dusk

From sunrise to sunset.

Example Bank

A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

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Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.

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We caught a beautiful view of the dusk.

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Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

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I see the air benighted And all the dusking dales, And lamps in England lighted,

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

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