• (British) IPA: /dʌsk/

dusk

1. A period of time at the end of day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night, especially the darker part of twilight.
2. A darkish colour.

   • Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

• (period of time) evenfall, nightfall, smokefall, vespers; see also Thesaurus:dusk

• (period of time) dawn, daybreak; see also Thesaurus:dawn

• French: crépuscule
• German: Abenddämmerung
• Italian: crepuscolo, tramonto
• Portuguese: pôr do sol, crepúsculo, ocaso, anoitecer
• Russian: су́мерки
• Spanish: ocaso

dusk (dusks, present participle dusking; past and past participle dusked)

1. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
   • , Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems ↗, XXXIII, lines 25-27

     I see the air benighted

     And all the dusking dales,

     And lamps in England lighted,

2. (transitive) To make dusk.

   • After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.

• Italian: tramontare, crepuscolare

dusk (comparative dusker, superlative duskest)

1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Book the First”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗:

     A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.