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dusk

/dʌsk/noun, verb1 syllable

Dusk means: the time of day immediately following sunset.

Synonyms for dusk20

noun, as in the time of day immediately following sunset

twilight, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle

also used for dusk

smokefall, vespers, cockshut, crepusculum, dark, dimmity, duckish, mirkning, night, sun, sundown, sunset

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What does dusk mean?2

noun

1

the time of day immediately following sunset“he loved the twilight”

verb

1

become dusk

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with dusk?1

one syllable

musk
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Dusk in a sentence

  • At dusk, the sky was dyed with purple light.LeviHighway
  • I watch the sky shift colors at dusk, a fleeting masterpiece.Igider
  • When we arrived at the seaside, it was already dusk.sundown
  • People bustle at dawn, news arrives at dusk.anzart
  • At dusk, he paced up and down the ship's deck.sundown
  • At dusk, the sky glows with a purple light.LeviHighway
  • At dusk, the sky is tinted with purple light.LeviHighway
  • The men worked from dawn to dusk seven days a week.CK

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Forms of dusk

as a noun

plural
dusks

as a verb

third-person singular
dusks
present participle
dusking
past participle
dusked
past tense
dusked