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Definition of Sundown
1. Noun. The time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon.
Group relationships: Eve, Even, Evening, Eventide
Generic synonyms: Hour, Time Of Day
Antonyms: Sunrise
Definition of Sundown
1. n. The setting of the sun; sunset.
Definition of Sundown
1. Noun. (American English) sunset ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sundown
1. to experience nighttime confusion [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sundown
Literary usage of Sundown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1869)
"We left the land gradually astern; and at sundown had the Atlantic Ocean clear
before us. ... sundown ..."
2. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1895)
"We left the land gradually astern; and at sundown had the Atlantic Ocean clear
before us. CHAPTER XXXIII. IT is usual, in voyages round the Cape from the ..."
3. Stepping Stones to Literature: A Reader for Seventh Grades by Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert (1898)
"IF I LIVE TILL sundown. By Henry Woodfin Grady. (1850-1889.) A SOLDIER lay wounded
on a hard-fought field; the roar of the battle had died away, ..."
4. The US Virgin Islands Alive! by Harriet Greenberg, Douglas Greenberg (2006)
"Sunup to sundown Strand Street The waterfront drive is wide and tree-lined, ...
Sunup to sundown The combination of near-perfect weather and deep blue ..."
5. A New England Childhood by Margaret Fuller (1916)
"VI FROM sundown TO sundown SUNDAY begins less early nowadays than it began in
Norwich Town a ... In Edmund's boyhood, the day began at sundown on Saturday, ..."
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