Dusk

Definition: Dusk

Dusk

Noun

1. The time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night".

2. A state of diffused or dim illumination.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dusk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: Dusk

Evening

Noun: evening, eve; decline of day, fall of day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting; eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the sun,Noun: evening, eve; decline of day, fall of day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting; eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the sun, cock- shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime.

Crosswords: Dusk

They've been shelling flavored chocolate bars from dawn till dusk! (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)

I can catch catfish from dusk 'till dawn (A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Verison); performing artist: Chad Brock)

Riders of the Dusk (1949)

Dusk to Dawn (1922)

The Temple of Dusk (1918)

Flower of the Dusk (1918)

The Light at Dusk (1916)

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Books

• A Dusk of Demons (reference)

• Dusk and Other Stories (reference)

• From Dawn Till Dusk (reference)

• Ghost Towns Dusk to Dawn 2003 Calendar (reference)

• Manhattan Dawn and Dusk (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• From Dusk till Dawn - Collector's DVD Box Set (reference)

• From Dusk Till Dawn: Dimension Collector's Series (reference)

• From Dusk Till Dawn (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (reference)

• Dusk Monsoon (reference)

• Dusk Till Dawn: The Best of Capercallie (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• From Dusk 'Till Dawn (reference)

• Dawn Dusk Photo CD (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Prescott Gradiated Dusk Blue Teakettle (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Topographic surveying at dusk. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A swampy shoreline at dusk Hundreds of islands make mapping work difficult. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A view of Hilo at dusk with a snow-capped Mauna Loa in the background. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Dusk at Mescalero Sand Dunes, Off Highway Vehicle site, Special Management Area in Roswell Field Office, Roswell, New Mexico. Credit: Unknown.

Yaquina Head Lighthouse at dusk. Credit: Michael Noack.

Is hit by a "Kamikaze" at dusk on 12 May 1945, while off Okinawa. Photographed from USS Wichita (CA-45). Credit: NAVY.

USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) signals with a blinker lamp, during a rainy dusk off Iwo Jima, 16 February 1945. Photographed from USS Texas (BB-35). Credit: NAVY.

Dusting planes (agricultural sprayers) fly mainly at dawn and dusk when the wind dies down. Their extreme proximity to the ground can turn any sudden gust of wind into an accident. They hedge-hop over obstacles, must remain low to the very edge of the fie. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farmhouse at dusk near Presque Isle, Maine. Credit: Library of Congress.

William Snaith, residence on Georgetown Rd., RD 3, Georgetown, Connecticut. General view, early dusk. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Twice the United States has had to send several millions of its young men across the Atlantic to find the war; but now war can find any nation, wherever it may dwell between dusk and dawn. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And to roam through the street at dusk.

The firelight flickered on the wall and beyond the window a spectral dusk was gathering upon the river

The dusk was thick now.

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Health

Stay indoors at dawn, dusk, and in the early evening. (references)

Avoid outdoor activities, especially from dusk to dawn, when sand flies are the most active. (references)

Sand flies usually are most active in twilight, evening, and night-time hours (from dusk to dawn). (references)

Human Rights

Uganda

School facilities and health clinics in all five institutions are defunct; prisoners as young as age 12 perform manual labor from dawn until dusk. (references)

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Expressions using "dusk": at dusk ♦ dusk is falling ♦ from dawn till dusk ♦ from dawn to dusk. Additional references.

Beginning with "dusk": dusk-grey, dusk-laden, dusk-lit, dusk-to-dawn, dusk-white.

Ending with "dusk": dawn-to-dusk, pre-dusk.

Afrikaans

skemer (twilight), aandskemering (twilight), aandgrou (twilight). (various references)

Albanian

muzg (afterglow, dark, duskiness, gloaming, nightfall, owl-light, shadow, sunset, twilight), mugëtirë (duskiness, half-light, nightfall, twilight), gjysmerrësirë (semidarkness, shadow), erret (darkle), errësoj (adumbrate, becloud, bedim, black out, blur, darken, dim, eclipse, fog, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shadow), bie muzg (be gloaming). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معتم (cloud-capped, cloudy, dark, dim, dusky, gloomy, murky, obscure, overcast), ‏مظلم (black, dark, dim, dun, gloomy, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, overcast, tenebrous), ‏غبش (dark, penumbra, twilight), ‏المساء (evening), ‏الغسق (gloaming). (various references)

Asturian

anochecerín. (various references)

Bemba

icingulo bushiku. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сумрачен (crepuscular, dun, tenebrous, twilighted, twilit), сумрак (gloaming, nightfall, twilight), смрачава се, тъмен (black, blackish, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dense, dusky, esoteric, fuscous, inky, low-browed, murky, neutral, obscure, opaque, overcast, sad, shady, somber, sombre, sooty, unlit), неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), мургав (dark, dusky, nigrescent, nut-brown, olive, swart, swarthy), мрачина (mirk, murk), здрачен (crepuscular, darkling), здрач (cockshot, duskiness, eventide, half-light, twilight), привечер (at dusk), помрачавам (alloy, bedim, cloud, darken, dim, dull, eclipse, nip, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shade, shadow, trouble), полумрак (dimness, half-light, semi-darkness, shade, twilight). (various references)

Catalan

vespre. (various references)

Cebuano

kilomkilom. (various references)

Chamorro

pupuenge. (various references)

Chinese 

黃昏 (evening, nightfall), 黄昏 (Crepuscular), 薄暮 (twilight), 擦黑兒 , 夕 (evening). (various references)

Cornish

tewlwolow. (various references)

Czech

soumrak (cockshut, gloaming, night, nightfall, night-fall, twilight), šero (dimness, duskiness, gloom, owl-light, twilight). (various references)

Danish

tusmørke (twilight). (various references)

Dutch

schemerdonker (twilight), schemer (twilight), halfdonker (twilight). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

tutayana. (various references)

Esperanto

duonlumo, krepusko (twilight). (various references)

Faeroese

skýming (twilight). (various references)

Farsi 

هنگام غروب , هوای گرگ ومیش (Torchlight, Twilight), تاریک نمودن , تاریک وروشن . (various references)

Finnish

hämärä (dark, dim, dusky, hazy, obscure, the grey dawn, twilight). (various references)

French

crépuscule. (various references)

Frisian

skimer (twilight), jûnskimer. (various references)

German

abenddämmerung (evening twilight, twilight), zwielicht (half-light, twilight), dämmerung (dawn, evening twilight, gloaming, half-light, twilight), Dämmerlicht (gloom, half-light, twilight). (various references)

Greek 

σουρούπωμα (nightfall). (various references)

Hebrew 

עריבה (nightfall, sunset), אפלולית (dimness), אפלה (blackness, darkness, gloominess, murk, obscurity), דמדום (dimness, gloaming, stupor, twilight, vagueness), בין הערבים (twilight). (various references)

Hungarian

szürkület (gloaming, Gray, grey, nightfall, owl-light, shades of evening, twilight), félhomály (half-light, semidarkness, semi-darkness, subdued light, twilight), alkony (nightfall, sunset, twilight). (various references)

Icelandic

rökkur (twilight). (various references)

Indonesian

senja (eventide, gloaming, twilight). (various references)

Inuktitut

taaqsiliqtilugu. (various references)

Italian

crepuscolo (crepuscle, gloaming, nightfall, twilight). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薄暮 (nightfall, twilight), 暮色 (twilight scene). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たそがれ (twilight), ひぐれ (evening, sunset, twilight), ひともしごろ (early evening), ぼしょく (twilight scene), こうこん (grandchildren, posterity, twilight), ゆうやみ (twilight), よいやみ (twilight), はくぼ (aunt, nightfall, twilight), はくめい (evil fate, faint light, misfortune, short life, twilight). (various references)

Korean 

황혼 (twilight). (various references)

Macedonian

zora. (various references)

Manx

keeirid (twilight), dorraghey (crepuscular, dark, dun, dusky, enigmatic, fade out, gloomy, obscure). (various references)

Maya

eek-same'enil. (various references)

Norwegian

skumring (twilight). (various references)

Pig Latin

uskday.(various references)

Portuguese

sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun, dusky, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-headed, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous), sombrear (cast a shadow), sombra (cloud, ghost, shade, umbra, umbrage), penumbra (owl-light, penumbra, twilight), obscuro (abstruse, blur, dim, fameless, foggy, hazy, humble, inexplicit, inglorious, misty, mysterious, nameless, obscure, oracular, transcendental, unclear, unnoted), obscurecer (befog, blot, blur, cloud, darken, dim, fog, gloom, haze, lour, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow, sadden, shadow, thicken), luz de vigília, luz crepuscular, escuro (abstruse, blackish, bock, dark, darkling, deep, dim, dimness, dismal, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, inky, mirk, moonless, muddy, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, somber, sombre, swart, umber), escuridão (cloudiness, dark, darkness, dead, gloom, mirk, mirkiness, murk, murkiness, night, obscurity, opacity, opaque, shade), escurecer (cloud, darken, darkle, dim, gloom, overcloud), crepúsculo (cockshut, lights, owl-light, twilight), anoitecer (candle-light, even, eventide, grow dark, nightfall). (various references)

Provencal

calabrun. (various references)

Romanian

semiobscuritate (dimness, semiobscurity), searã (dark, dew-fall, eve, even, evening, eventide, night, twilight, vesper), se însera, crepuscular (crepuscular, darkling, twilight, twilit), crepuscul (crepuscule, gloaming, twilight), creponat, amurg (afterglow, candlelight, crepuscule, decline, gloaming, nightfall, sunset, twilight), întunecime (blackness, darkness, dimness, gloom, gloominess, murkiness), întunecare (darkening, darkness, gloominess, lower, sombreness), înserare (duskiness, nightfall, twilight). (various references)

Romany

parla. (various references)

Ruanda

umutaga. (various references)

Russian 

сумерки (blind man's holiday, gloaming, nightfall, owl-light, twilight, twilights). (various references)

Samoan

afiafi popogi. (various references)

Scottish

glòmanaich (nf. dusk of eve). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

suton (duskiness, gloaming, owl-light, twilight), sumrak (candlelight, nightfall, owl-light, twilight), smrkavanje (nightfall, onfall), smračiti se. (various references)

Shona

rufuramhembwe. (various references)

Spanish

anonchecer (twilight), crepúsculo (gloaming, twilight). (various references)

Swedish

skymning (be gloaming, gloaming, nightfall, owl-light, twilight). (various references)

Thai

เวลาเย็นก่อนค่ำ. (various references)

Turkish

loş (dusky, gloomy, obscure, shadowy, shady, somber, sombre), alacakaranlik (twilight), alaca karanlık (crepuscular, gloaming, owl-light, twilight), akşam karanlığı (gloaming). (various references)

Turkmen 

iсrik. (various references)

Ukrainian

смеркатися, смеркати (grow dark), неясний (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, blind, blurred, chancy, darkling, doubtful, faint, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, opaque, oracular, oraculous, recondite, shadowy, transcendental, unaccounted for, unclear, undistinguished, woolly, wooly), присмерковий (crepuscular, dusky, twilight), присмерк (duskiness, nightfall, shades, twilight). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lúc tối nhá nhem, bóng tối lúc chạng vạng. (various references)

Welsh

dechreunos (nightfall), llwydnos (twilight), cyfnos (evening twilight), cyflychwr (evening twilight). (various references)

crepusculum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dusk": dusked, duskier, duskiest, duskily, duskiness, duskinesses, dusking, duskish, dusks, dusky. (additional references)

Words ending with "dusk": predusk. (additional references)

Words containing "dusk": predusks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dusk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cusk, Ddsi, desc, dmsu, doak, dosk, dsc, dsg, dsu, Duk, Dukw, dulk, durk, Dursch, D'urso, dus, dusa, dush, dusi, duso, Dutka, dutko, Duus, duz, duzi, duzo, Eusko, fusk, gusk, jusk, nusk, Udsp, usc. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: us.

+1 letter: ducks, dukes, dunks, dusks, dusky, kudos, kudus.

+2 letters: busked, drouks, drunks, dusked, husked, kudzus, sucked, sulked, tusked.

+3 letters: adzukis, debunks, dibbuks, dinkums, duckers, duckies, duikers, dunkers, duskier, duskily, dusking, duskish, dybbuks, judokas, kiddush, kludges, nudniks, padauks, padouks, predusk, sculked, shucked, skulked, skulled, skunked, spunked, suckled, sundeck, unasked, undocks.

+4 letters: burdocks, buskined, cuckolds, drunkest, duckiest, duckpins, dukedoms, duskiest, dustlike, geoducks, gweducks, mudlarks, mudpacks, mudrocks, nudnicks, outasked, predusks, ruddocks, shelduck, squawked, squeaked, studbook, studwork, suckered, sunbaked, sundecks, uncasked, unhusked, unkissed, unmasked, unslaked, unsmoked, unsoaked.