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dusk

Pronunciation: /dʌsk/

The English word “dusk” has 6 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

noun

  1. The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
  2. A darkish colour.
  3. The condition of being dusky; duskiness

verb

  1. To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
  2. To make dusk.

Etymology

From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more). Doublet of fuscous.

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