dusk
/dʌsk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades."
- "Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace."
- "We caught a beautiful view of the dusk."
- "Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin."
- "I see the air benighted And all the dusking dales, And lamps in England lighted,"
- "After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth."
Etymology
From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more). Doublet of fuscous.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dʌsk/
- British English: /dʌsk/