dusk

About 3.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
2. noun 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.

3. noun A darkish colour.
4. noun The condition of being dusky; duskiness
5. verb To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
6. verb To make dusk.

Similar words

gloaming evenfall nightfall twilight fall sunset night sundown dawn evening

Often followed by

of and was the to when on in had

Word family

dusked dusking dusks