noun
Meaning 1
Sunset.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
Examples
- We’ll meet by the pier at sundown.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sundown
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈsʌnˌdaʊn/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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CMU ARPABET: S AH1 N D AW2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes from sunlight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
to experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at the approach of nightfall.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sunset
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hour, time of day
History
Etymology
From sun + down.