One entry found for dusk.

Entry Word: dusk
Function: noun
Text: 1 the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness <we stopped playing at dusk, since it was getting too dark to see the ball>
Synonyms evening, eventide, gloaming, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight
Related Words dark, darkness, night, nighttime
Near Antonyms day, daytime, light
Antonyms aurora, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, daylight, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup
2 a time or place of little or no light <legends of fearsome beasts living in the dusk of the great forest> -- see DARK 1