dusk
noun/dʌsk/
/dʌsk/
[uncountable]- the time of day when the light has almost gone, but it is not yet dark
- at dusk The street lights go on at dusk.
- I’ve been on the go from dawn to dusk.
- She arrived home as dusk was falling.
- The lamps twinkled in the gathering dusk.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- gathering
- approach
- fall
- settle
- …
- after dusk
- at dusk
- before dusk
- …
- from dawn to dusk
Word OriginOld English dox ‘dark, swarthy’ and doxian ‘darken in colour’, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German tusin ‘darkish’; compare with dun. The noun dates from the early 17th cent. The change in form from -x to -sk occurred in Middle English.
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