Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The time of sunset.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Sunset; sunsetting.
  • noun A hat with a wide brim intended to protect the eyes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The setting of the sun; sunset.
  • noun A kind of broad-brimmed sun hat worn by women.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun US sunset

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon

Etymologies

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sun +‎ down

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Examples

  • A classic stroll at sundown is along the malecón, which stretches for miles along the Gulf of Mexico to the outlying suburbs.

    Veracruz, Mexico: a feast for the senses 2006

  • A classic stroll at sundown is along the malecón, which stretches for miles along the Gulf of Mexico to the outlying suburbs.

    Veracruz, Mexico: a feast for the senses 2006

  • A classic stroll at sundown is along the malecón, which stretches for miles along the Gulf of Mexico to the outlying suburbs.

    Veracruz, Mexico: a feast for the senses 2006

  • Yes | No | Report from Reid Jones wrote 39 weeks 2 hours ago people that take shots after dark during deer season. it's obviously 20 minutes past sundown, which is VERY illegal, and i'm still hearing gun shots every so often. ticks me off how people are stupid like that. another deer hunting one, i hate sooners! if you can't wait to hunt in the legal time, you shouldn't be hunting at all.

    My pet peeve is people that see my decoys and move in right next to me, throw out decoys and start shooting at every duck out of 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from Reid Jones wrote 39 weeks 2 hours ago people that take shots after dark during deer season. it's obviously 20 minutes past sundown, which is VERY illegal, and i'm still hearing gun shots every so often. ticks me off how people are stupid like that. another deer hunting one, i hate sooners! if you can't wait to hunt in the legal time, you shouldn't be hunting at all.

    My pet peeve is people that see my decoys and move in right next to me, throw out decoys and start shooting at every duck out of 2009

  • But then what firefighters and what Kara was reporting was right before the sunsets we get what's known as sundown winds or sundowner winds, and that happens because we get a decrease in relatively humidity with a rise in temperature at the end of the day.

    CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2008 2008

  • WHITE: Well, the problem here is that if this fire is allowed to get into this canyon and we get that condition known as a sundown, those down canyon winds.

    CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2008 2008

  • Also, you know, year ago they were called sundown towns, as in if you're black you want to be out by sundown.

    CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2006 2006

  • OPPENHEIM: Our story on Vidor, Texas, depicted a place with very few African-American residents, a place that, in the '50s and' 60s, was known as sundown town, where African-Americans were warned not to be caught after dark.

    CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2006 2006

  • It used to be known as a sundown town where blacks didn't dare go out at night.

    CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2006 2006

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