sunset
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Sunset_may_2006_panorama.jpg/250px-Sunset_may_2006_panorama.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English son-sett, Sonne set, equivalent to sun + set. In Gower's Confessio Amantis, before 1393.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sunset (countable and uncountable, plural sunsets)
- The moment each evening when the sun disappears below the western horizon.
- at sunset
- 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
- ’Twas sunset: when the sun will part
There comes a sullenness of heart
To him who still would look upon
The glory of the summer sun.
- The changes in color of the sky before and after sunset.
- (figuratively) The final period of the life of a person or thing.
- 1799, Thomas Campbell, Pleasure of Hope:
- 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.
- one's sunset years
- (attributively) A set termination date.
- The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.
- The region where the sun sets; the west.
Synonyms
[edit]- (time): dusk, sundown (US), nightfall, twilight; see also Thesaurus:dusk
- (change in color of the sky at sunset):
- (final period of life): end, final act, swansong
- (attributively: of or relating to the final period of life): last, terminal, twilight
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]time of day
|
changes in color of sky at sunset
|
final period of life
|
attributively: of or relating to the final period of life
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
|
Verb
[edit]sunset (third-person singular simple present sunsets, present participle sunsetting, simple past and past participle sunsetted)
- (business, politics, transitive) To phase out.
- We’ll be sunsetting version 1.9 of the software shortly after releasing version 2.0 next quarter.
- 2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist[1]:
- Last December, Yahoo announced plans to “sunset” more well-known services, including the pioneering social bookmarking service del.icio.us.
Translations
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English compound terms
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ʌnsɛt
- Rhymes:English/ʌnsɛt/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- English verbs
- en:Business
- en:Politics
- English transitive verbs
- en:Times of day