dusk English

Meaning dusk meaning

What does dusk mean?

Definitions in simple English

dusk Noun

— Dusk is the time of the day just before the sun sets. It is already dusk and Casper has not arrived home yet.

dusk

— noun (= twilight, fall) the time of day immediately following sunset he loved the twilight they finished before the fall of night

— verb become dusk

Synonyms dusk synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as dusk?

dusk English » English

twilight

evening

nightfall

sunset

gloaming

dark

candlelight

dim

darkness

sundown

night

half-light

crepuscule

night-time

evenfall

obscure

murky

late afternoon

gloom

gloam

fall

eventide

dawn

crepuscle

semi-darkness

owl-light

gloomy

faint light

eve

dusky

dimness

blur

window

vesper

vagueness

twilight scene

toward evening

tonight

the beginning of night

sombre

somber

six o’clock in the evening

shady

shadowy

recondite

poor light

overcast

opaque

obscurity

obnubilate

Topics dusk topics

What do people use dusk to talk about?

Universe, creation Sky

Sun

• What words refer to the time when the sun sets?
  sunset dusk sundown twilight eventide

States Time Period of time Day

Time of the day

• What words refer to sunset?
  sunset sundown twilight dusk nightfall it gets dark gloaming

Examples dusk examples

How do I use dusk in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Dusk fell over the desert.

The mouse's shadow at dusk is longer than the cat's shadow at noon.

We work from dawn until dusk.

They feast all night and fast from dawn to dusk for one month every year.

Hardly a day went by on which, from dawn to dusk, Tom and John were not together - until Mary entered Tom's life.

I'm beat. I've been working from dawn to dusk.

Roger works from dawn to dusk.

The sun at dusk is red.

Sometimes I work from dawn to dusk in the fields.

Movie subtitles

In that case, we shall meet here at dusk.

From dawn till dusk.

And now. when I am dead. my funeral. you will bury me at dusk. in the clothes I told you.

What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist or the dusky dusk?

Long about dusk, I'd seen something.

Is it dawn or is it dusk?

The body may be claimed at dusk.

It was two days ago at dusk, by the banks of the Katsura.

I King, Mighty Monarch of the Land of Night, whose boundaries stretch from Dusk to Dawn and from the Setting to the Rising Sun do most solemnly proclaim.

Old and young, this very evening let us dance from dusk till dawn!

Superintended by the pigs, all the animals worked long shifts which lasted from dawn till dusk.

I'd hoped we could get over it by practice but on still nights, when the water is smooth, there's a sort of a no man's land between the dusk and the water.

We were on the move from dawn to dusk and back to dawn.

Do nothing from dawn to dusk and earn a bomb!

Do we wait for dusk?

It was dusk.

They will not listen to the closing of the doors of its prison, nor the train from Villette to Paris, that starts off after the dusk in order to gather the following victims.

Do you remember how we hunted the hills from dawn till dusk?

At dusk.

Let's just enjoy the dusk.

There's enough clearing to make your jump at dusk.

The stillness and the dusk.

Cry and work - that's all you do, dawn to dusk.

You have to discover Paris at dusk, when you're 20 and have just arrived from the country.

We old ones love dusk.

A faint shadow moved slowly through the dusk.

We're OK in the sun, but at dusk it starts to freeze.

Come out at dusk with a riffle over the shoulder.

Introspection in the dusk.

He glided round objects with the air, with the dusk.