What is the difference between dusk and dawn?
dusk | dawn |
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
To begin to brighten with daylight.
* Bible, (w) xxviii. 1
To start to appear or be realized.
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To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
(countable) The rising of the sun.
(uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
(uncountable) The beginning.
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Dawn is an antonym of dusk.
Dusk is an antonym of dawn.
As nouns the difference between dusk and dawn
is that dusk is a period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets while dawn is (uncountable) the morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.As verbs the difference between dusk and dawn
is that dusk is to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk while dawn is to begin to brighten with daylight.As a 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.
Anagrams
*dawn
English
Verb
(en verb)- In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdaleneto see the sepulchre.
- in dawning youth
- when life awakes, and dawns at every line
Derived terms
* dawn onSee also
*Noun
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