dusk
dusk is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 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.
- 3.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.
- 4.To grow dusk. [R.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- afternoon
- arch
- autumn
- autumnal
- bedtime
- candlelight
- close
- curfew
- day
- dead
- decline
- dewy
- down
- eleventh
- equinox
- eve
- evening
- eventide
- fall
- gloaming
- going
- golden
- gorgeous
- hour
- killing
- leaf
- midnight
- night
- nightfall
- nocturnal
- outpost
- postmeridian
- summer
- sun
- sundown
- sunset
- the
- this
- time
- twilight
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is dusk.
- What is imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening called?
- What is a darkish color. Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. Dryden called?
- What is 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 called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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