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What is the difference between dusk and sunset?

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Sunset is a synonym of dusk.



As nouns the difference between dusk and sunset

is that dusk is a period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets while sunset is the time of day when the sun disappears below the western horizon.

As verbs the difference between dusk and sunset

is that dusk is to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk while sunset is to phase out.

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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    sunset

    English

    (wikipedia sunset)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The time of day when the sun disappears below the western horizon.
  • The changes in color of the sky at sunset.
  • (figuratively) The final period of the life of a person or thing.
  • * Campbell
    • 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.
    one's sunset years
  • (attributively) Having a set termination date.
    • The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.
  • The region where the sun sets; the west.

    • Synonyms

    * (time) dusk, sundown (US), nightfall, twilight * (change in color of the sky at sunset) * (final period of life) end, final act, swansong * last, terminal, twilight

    Antonyms

    * sunrise

    Derived terms

    * sunset shell * sunset years

    See also

    * moonset

    Verb

  • (business, politics, transitive) To phase out.
    • We'll be sunsetting version 1.9 of the software shortly after releasing version 2.0 next quarter.

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