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Meadow vs Dusk - What's the difference?

meadow | dusk |

As a proper noun meadow

is a town in texas.

As a noun dusk is

a period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.

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.

meadow

English

(wikipedia meadow)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.
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  • Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
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    Derived terms

    * catch-meadow * meadow barley * meadow beauty * meadow bright * meadow buttercup * meadow clary * meadow clover * meadow cranesbill * meadow cress * meadow dermatitis * meadow fern * meadow fescue * meadow foxtail * meadow frog * meadow golden * meadow grass * meadow horsetail * meadow jumping mouse * meadow leek * meadow lily * meadow mouse * meadow muffin * meadow mushroom * meadow nematode * meadow ore * meadow oxeye * meadow pea * meadow pink * meadow pipit * meadow rue * meadow saffron * meadow salsify * meadow saxifrage * meadow spikemoss * meadow spittlebug * meadow starling * meadow thistle * meadow violet * meadow vole * meadowage * meadowed * meadower * meadowing * meadowish * meadowland * meadowlark * meadowless * meadowsweet * meadow-wink * meadowy * queen of the meadow * water meadow

    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.

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