'Dusk' definitions:

Definition of 'dusk'

From: WordNet
noun
The time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]
verb
Become dusk

Definition of 'Dusk'

From: GCIDE
  • Dusk \Dusk\, n.
  • 1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A darkish color. [1913 Webster]
  • Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Dusk'

From: GCIDE
  • Dusk \Dusk\, v. t. To make dusk. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
  • After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth. --Holland. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Dusk'

From: GCIDE
  • Dusk \Dusk\, v. i. To grow dusk. [R.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Dusk'

From: GCIDE
  • Dusk \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. [1913 Webster]
  • A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'dusk'

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