Entry Word: dusk

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness <we stopped playing at dusk, since it was getting too dark to see the ball>

Synonyms evening, eventide, gloaming, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight

Related Words dark, darkness, night, nighttime

Near Antonyms day, daytime, light

Antonyms aurora, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, daylight, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup

2 a time or place of little or no light <legends of fearsome beasts living in the dusk of the great forest> — see dark 1