Definitions for sunset

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sunset sun·set

Spelling: [suhn-set]

IPA: /ˈsʌnˌsɛt/

Sunset is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in sunset (ensstu).

Definitions for sunset

noun

1. the setting or descent of the sun below the horizon in the evening.
2. the atmospheric and scenic phenomena accompanying this.
3. the time when the sun sets.
4. the close or final stage of any period.

adjective

1. (of an industry, technology, etc.) old; declining:
2. of, relating to, or characteristic of a sunset law:

Origin of sunset

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at sun, set

Examples for sunset

At sunset he would have stopped for the day, camping on the spot.

At sunset the thermometer was at 50°, and at midnight at 30°.

Glenn Close returns to Broadway for the first time since her star turn as Norma Desmond in sunset Boulevard 20 years ago.

“One club I worked at, sunset Strip, they caught a 15-year-old girl trying to audition,” Sharky recalled.

“We shoot at sunset Gower Studios, and you can see the street through the gate,” he says.

“On the whole I kind of quite like my films without watching them every night like Gloria Swanson in sunset Boulevard,” he said.

It was about sunset, and the family were at their frugal meal.

We reached the camp at sunset, after a day's ride of about 40 miles.

I saw the Scarface with Paul Muni on sunset Boulevard at the… whatever the name of that theater is, the Tiffany.

The mountain in the sunset had stopped the five couriers in a conversation.