dusk
noun
[ dʌsk ]
• the darker stage of twilight.
• "dusk was falling rapidly"
Similar:
twilight,
nightfall,
sunset,
sundown,
evening,
close of day,
dark,
darkness,
semi-darkness,
gathering darkness,
gloom,
gloominess,
murk,
murkiness,
shades of evening,
gloaming,
eventide,
eve,
even,
evenfall,
tenebrosity,
owl light,
crepuscule,
dusk
verb
• grow dark.
• "the sky dusked and the shadows got long and hard"
dusk
adjective
• shadowy, dim, or dark.
• "the dusk demesnes of night"
Origin:
Old English dox ‘dark, swarthy’ and doxian ‘darken in colour’, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German tusin ‘darkish’; compare with dun1 The noun dates from the early 17th century The change in form from -x to -sk occurred in Middle English.