DUSK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dusk mean? 

• DUSK (noun)
  The noun DUSK has 1 sense:

1. the time of day immediately following sunset

  Familiarity information: DUSK used as a noun is very rare.

• DUSK (verb)
  The verb DUSK has 1 sense:

1. become dusk

  Familiarity information: DUSK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUSK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time of day immediately following sunset

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight

Context example:

they finished before the fall of night

Hypernyms ("dusk" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dusk"):

night (a shortening of nightfall)

Holonyms ("dusk" is a part of...):

eve; even; evening; eventide (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall))

Derivation:

dusky (lighted by or as if by twilight)

• DUSK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become dusk

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "dusk" is one way to...):

darken (become dark or darker)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

Presently the familiar tramp was heard in the dusk, and she ran out to meet him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The mail picked us up about dusk at the Royal George on the heath.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was just growing dusk at the time.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was afterwards looking for her shawl—Frank Churchill was looking also—it was growing dusk, and the room was in confusion; and how they parted, Mr. Knightley could not tell.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was already dusk before we thought of returning; and then we discovered that William and Ernest, who had gone on before, were not to be found.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

At dusk we saw Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside the little figure of the lad who drove him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The opiate worked itself off towards dusk, and she waked naturally; she looked a different being from what she had been before the operation.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Goodness me!” said my aunt, peering through the dusk, “who's this you're bringing home?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Burivalova and his team found that soundscape saturation peaked at dawn and dusk, likely because most birds and amphibians vocalise in those periods.

(Scientists record the sound of intact forest, SciDev.Net)

The darkness of natural as well as of sylvan dusk gathered over me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)