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dusk

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Scrabble points
9
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10
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/dʌsk/
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/dʌsk/ · /dʊsk/

Definition of dusk

6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
    “A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.”
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adj

  1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
    “A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.”

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
    “Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.”
    “We caught a beautiful view of the dusk.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)A darkish colour.
    “Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.”
  3. (countable, uncountable)The condition of being dusky; duskiness

verb

  1. (intransitive)To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
    “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 Moone must needs be under the earth.”

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Etymology

From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more).

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