dusk
noun
- darkest stage of twilight, or at the very end of astronomical twilight after sunset and just before night
verb
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Pronunciation: /dʌsk/ / /dʊsk/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more).
- Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
“A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more).
- 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
Etymology: From Middle English dusken, from Old English doxian.
- 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.”