sunset

sunset

English

A sunset (changes in color of the sky).

Etymology

From Middle English son-sett, Sonne set, equivalent to sun +‎ set. In Gower's Confessio Amantis, before 1393.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnˌsɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnsɛt

Noun

sunset (countable and uncountable, plural sunsets)

1. 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.

2. The changes in color of the sky before and after sunset.
3. (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

4. (attributively) A set termination date.

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

5. The region where the sun sets; the west.

Synonyms

• (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

• sunrise

Derived terms

• sunset clause
• sunset crop
• sunset industry
• sunset law
• Sunset Park
• sunset prayer
• sunset provision
• sunset shell
• sunsetty
• sunset years

 

Translations

time of day

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can Afrikaans: sonsondergang (af) Arabic: مَغْرِب‎ (ar) m (maḡrib), غُرُوب‎ m (ḡurūb) Armenian: մայրամուտ (hy) (mayramut), արևամուտ (hy) (arewamut) Avar: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: за́хад со́нца m (záxad sónca) Bengali: মাগরিব (bn) (magôribô) Bikol Central: pagsulnop (bcl) Bulgarian: залез (bg) m (zalez) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: posta de sol f Chechen: please add this translation if you can Cherokee: ᏭᏕᎵᎬ (wudeligv) Chinese: Mandarin: 日落 (zh) (rìluò) Czech: západ slunce m Danish: solnedgang (da) Dutch: zonsondergang (nl) m Elfdalian: suolniðgaungg m Esperanto: sunsubiro (eo), sunfalo Estonian: päikeseloojang, päikeseloojak (rare) Faroese: sólsetur n Finnish: auringonlasku (fi), illansuu French: coucher de soleil (fr) m Galician: posta de sol f, solpor m Georgian: მზის ჩასვლა (mzis časvla), დაისი (daisi) German: Sonnenuntergang (de) m Greek: δύση (el) f (dýsi), ηλιοβασίλεμα (el) n (iliovasílema) Greenlandic: seqerngup tarrinnera Hindi: सूर्यास्त (hi) m (sūryāst) Hungarian: naplemente (hu), napnyugta (hu) Icelandic: sólsetur (is) n, sólarlag (is) n, sólfall n Ido: sunokusho (io) Indonesian: senja (id) Italian: tramonto (it) m, crepuscolo (it) m Japanese: 日没 (ja) (にちぼつ, nichibotsu), 日の入り (ja) (ひのいり, hinoiri) Korean: 해넘이 (haeneomi), 황혼(黃昏) (ko) (hwanghon), 일락(日落) (illak) Latin: crepusculum Latvian: saulriets m Low German: Sünnünnergang m Luxembourgish: Sonnenënnergang m Macedonian: зајдисонце (zajdisonce) Malayalam: അസ്തമയം (ml) (astamayaṃ) Mizo: ni tlâk Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Nahuatl: aqui in tonatiuh Navajo: iʼííʼą́ągo Norman: couochi du solé m Northern Sami: beaivvášluoitádeapmi Norwegian: solnedgang (no) m Nynorsk: soleglad n Old English: sunnan setlgang m Old High German: sunnūn sedalgang m Oromo: lixa biiftuu Ossetian: хуры аныгуылд (xury anyg°yld) Panamint: tape ikanna Plautdietsch: Sonnunjagank m Polish: zmierzch (pl) m, zachód słońca (pl) m Portuguese: crepúsculo (pt) m, (superseded) pôr-do-sol (pt) m, pôr do sol (pt) m, poente (pt), ocaso (pt) m, sol-pôr (pt) m Romanian: apus (ro) n, asfințire (ro) f, crepuscul (ro) n Romansch: rendida dal sulegl f Russian: захо́д со́лнца m (zaxód sólnca), зака́т (ru) m (zakát), (вечерняя) заря́ (ru) f (zarjá), захо́д (ru) m (zaxód) Scottish Gaelic: dol fodha na grèine m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: залазак сунца m Roman: zalazak sunca m Sicilian: tracoḍḍu m, Slovene: sončni zahod m Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: chowanje słónca n Southern Altai: ажар (ažar) Southern Ohlone: sosoronin Southern Sami: vælloe, biejjievælloe Spanish: puesta del sol f, ocaso (es) m, atardecer (es) m Swedish: solnedgång (sv) c Swahili: machweo (sw) Tagalog: sibsib Telugu: సూర్యాస్తమయము (te) (sūryāstamayamu) Thai: เพล้โพล้, ตะวันตก (th) (dtà-wan-dtòk), ตอนค่ำ, ตกค่ำ Tibetan: ཉི་ནུབ (nyi nub), ཉི་རྒས (nyi rgas) Tocharian B: kauṃ-yaptsi Turkish: gün batımı (tr), gün batım Tuvan: кежээки хаяа (kejeeki xayaa) Ukrainian: за́хід со́нця m (záxid sóncja) Vietnamese: hoàng hôn (vi) Volapük: solamodonikam (vo), modonikam sola Welsh: machlud haul (cy) m, machlud (cy) m Yiddish: זונפֿאַרגאַנג‎ m (zunfargang), זונפֿאַרגאַנגען‎ m pl (zunfargangen), זון־אונטערגאַנג‎ m (zun-untergang), זון־אונטערגאַנגען‎ m pl (zun-untergangen)

changes in color of sky at sunset

Arabic: غُرُوب اَلشَّمْس‎ (ar) m (ḡurūb aš-šams), غُرُوب اَلشَّمْس‎ (ar) m (ḡurūb aš-šams) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 黃昏／黄昏 (zh) (huánghūn) Czech: západ slunce m Dutch: zonsondergang (nl) m Estonian: päikeseloojang, päikeseloojak (rare) Finnish: iltarusko (fi) French: crépuscule (fr) m German: Sonnenuntergang (de) m Hungarian: alkonypír (hu) Icelandic: sólsetur (is) n, sólarlag (is) n Italian: tramonto (it) m, crepuscolo (it) m Japanese: 夕焼け (ja) (ゆうやけ, yūyake), 黄昏 (ja) (たそがれ, tasogare) Khmer: ថ្ងៃលិច (thngay lɨc) Korean: 저녁놀 (jeonyeongnol), 황혼(黃昏) (ko) (hwanghon) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ڕۆژ ئاوا‎ (roj awa) Latin: crepusculum Macedonian: залез m (zalez), зајдисонце n (zajdisonce) Maori: kokomea Navajo: iʼííʼą́ Polish: zachód słońca (pl) m Portuguese: crepúsculo (pt) m, pôr-do-sol (pt) m Romanian: apus (ro) n, crepuscul (ro) n Russian: захо́д со́лнца m (zaxód sólnca), зака́т (ru) m (zakát), (вечерняя) заря́ f ((večernjaja) zarjá) Scottish Gaelic: dol fodha na grèine m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: за́лаз m, залазак сунца, залазница Roman: zálaz (sh) m, zalazak sunca, zalaznica (sh) Swedish: solnedgång (sv) c Welsh: machlud haul (cy) m, machlud (cy) m

final period of life

Arabic: خَاتِمَة‎ f (ḵātima), قَيَامَة‎ f (qayāma) Bulgarian: залез (bg) m (zalez) Danish: alderens efterår n Estonian: eluloojang Finnish: auringonlasku (fi), iltarusko (fi), elämän ehtoo French: crépuscule (fr) m German: Lebensabend (de) m Greek: δύση (el) f (dýsi) Hungarian: alkony (hu) Icelandic: sólsetur (is) n Italian: tramonto (it) m Japanese: 黄昏 (ja) (たそがれ, tasogare) Korean: 황혼(黃昏) (ko) (hwanghon) Latin: crepusculum Macedonian: залез m (zalez) Malayalam: അസ്തമയം (ml) (astamayaṃ) Mizo: chawhnû, ni tlâk Polish: zmierzch (pl) m Portuguese: crepúsculo (pt) m Romanian: declin (ro) n, apus (ro) n Russian: зака́т (ru) m (zakát) Welsh: machlud haul (cy) m, machlud (cy) m

attributively: of or relating to the final period of life

Arabic: خِتَامِي‎ m (ḵitāmī) Finnish: iltaruskon (fi) Hungarian: alkony (hu) Polish: zmierzch (pl) m

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Albanian: (please verify) perëndimi i diellit Lithuanian: (please verify) saulėlydis m (1, 3); (please verify) žara f (2) Old English: (please verify) sunnansetlgang m

Verb

sunset (third-person singular simple present sunsets, present participle sunsetting, simple past and past participle sunsetted)

1. (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:

     Last December, Yahoo announced plans to “sunset” more well-known services, including the pioneering social bookmarking service del.icio.us.

Translations

phase out — See also translations at phase out

Danish: udfase Hungarian: kivezet (hu), megszüntet (hu)

See also

• moonset

References

1. Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988

Anagrams

• unsets