Dusk vs Aspenglow - What's the difference?
dusk | aspenglow |
A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.
A darkish colour.
* Dryden
to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk
* ,
To make dusk.
* Holland
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between dusk and aspenglow
is that dusk is a period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets while aspenglow is (us|colorado) the glow on mountaintops at dawn and dusk.As a verb dusk
is to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.As an adjective dusk
is tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.dusk
English
Noun
(en noun)- Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
Synonyms
* sunset * sundown * evenfall * smokefall * vespersAntonyms
* dawnHyponyms
* gloaming * twilightSee also
*See also
* crepuscularVerb
(en verb)More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27
- I see the air benighted
- And all the dusking dales,
- And lamps in England lighted,
- After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.
Adjective
(er)- A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.