sunset

About 5.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The moment each evening when the sun disappears below the western horizon.

   at sunset

2. noun The changes in color of the sky before and after sunset.
3. noun The final period of the life of a person or thing.

   one's sunset years

4. noun A set termination date.

   The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.

5. noun The region where the sun sets; the west.
6. verb To phase out.

   We’ll be sunsetting version 1.9 of the software shortly after releasing version 2.0 next quarter.

Similar words

sundown last old sunsetting dusk night sunrise dawn evening nightfall

Often followed by

and on boulevard the to of in was we

Word family

sunsets sunsetted sunsetting