dusk Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the time of day immediately following sunset
    crepuscle; fall; gloaming; gloam; evenfall; nightfall; twilight; crepuscule.
    • he loved the twilight
    • they finished before the fall of night
  2. verb become dusk

WordNet

Dusk adjective
Etymology
OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower. .
Definitions
  1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
    A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.
Dusk noun
Definitions
  1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
  2. A darkish color.
    Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. Dryden.
Dusk transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To make dusk. Archaic
    After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth. Holland.
Dusk intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To grow dusk. R. Chaucer.

Webster 1913