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Dusk vs Payday - What's the difference?

dusk | payday |

As nouns the difference between dusk and payday

is that dusk is a period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets while payday is the day of the week or month, or the specific day, on which an employee's wages or salary is paid.

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)
  • A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.
  • A darkish colour.
  • * Dryden
    • Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

    Synonyms

    * sunset * sundown * evenfall * smokefall * vespers

    Antonyms

    * dawn

    Hyponyms

    * gloaming * twilight

    See also

    *

    See also

    * crepuscular

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk
  • * , More Poems , XXXIII, lines 25-27
    • I see the air benighted
    And all the dusking dales,
    And lamps in England lighted,
  • To make dusk.
  • * Holland
    • After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
  • * Milton
    • A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

    Anagrams

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    payday

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pay day

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The day of the week or month, or the specific day, on which an employee's wages or salary is paid.

    • Derived terms

    * payday loan