sunset
English
Etymology
From Middle English son-sett, Sonne set, equivalent to sun + set. In Gower's Confessio Amantis, before 1393.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsʌnˌsɛt/
- Rhymes: -ʌnsɛt
Noun
sunset (countable and uncountable, plural sunsets)
- 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.
- The changes in color of the sky before and after sunset.
- (figuratively) The final period of the life of a person or thing.
one's sunset years
1799, Thomas Campbell, Pleasure of Hope:'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.
- (attributively) A set termination date.
- The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.
- The region where the sun sets; the west.
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Translations
time of day — see also dusk
- Abkhaz: аҭашәара́ (ataŝʷará), аӡа́алара (adzáalara)
- Afrikaans: sonsondergang (af)
- Albanian: perëndim (sq)
- Altai:
- Southern Altai: ажар (ažar)
- Arabic: غُرُوب m (ḡurūb), مَغْرِب (ar) m (maḡrib)
- Armenian: մայրամուտ (hy) (mayramut), արևամուտ (hy) (arewamut)
- Avar: тӏерхьин (tʼerx̂in)
- Basque: arrats (eu), ilunabar, iluntze, ilunsenti, eguzki-sarte
- Belarusian: за́хад со́нца m (záxad sónca)
- Bengali: সূর্যাস্ত (bn) (śurjasto), মাগরিব (bn) (magribo)
- Bikol:
- Central Bikol: pagsulnop (bcl)
- Bulgarian: залез (bg) m (zalez)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: posta de sol f, ocàs (ca) m
- 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
- Old High German: sunnūn sedalgang m
- Greek: δύση (el) f (dýsi), ηλιοβασίλεμα (el) n (iliovasílema)
- Greenlandic: seqerngup tarrinnera
- Hebrew: שקיעה (he) (shkiá)
- Hindi: सूर्यास्त (hi) m (sūryāst)
- Hungarian: naplemente (hu), napnyugta (hu)
- Icelandic: sólsetur (is) n, sólarlag (is) n, sólfall n
- Ido: sunokusho (io)
- Indonesian: matahari terbenam, mentari benam, mentari masuk
- Ingrian: päivänlasku
- Italian: tramonto (it) m, crepuscolo (it) m, occaso (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, occasus m
- Latvian: saulriets (lv) m
- Lithuanian: saulėlydis m
- Low German: Sünnünnergang m
- Luxembourgish: Sonnenënnergang m
- Macedonian: зајдисонце (zajdisonce)
- Malayalam: അസ്തമയം (ml) (astamayaṁ)
- Manchu: ᡧᡠᠨ
ᡩᠣᠰᡳᠮᠪᡳ (šun dosimbi), ᡧᡠᠨ
ᡨᡠᡥᡝᠮᠪᡳ (šun tuhembi)
- Mizo: ni tlâk
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Naga:
- Khiamniungan Naga: ōtsīnáp
- Nahuatl: aqui in tonatiuh
- Navajo: iʼííʼą́ągo
- Norman: couochi du solé m
- Norwegian: solnedgang (no) m
- Nynorsk: soleglad n
- Ohlone:
- Southern Ohlone: sosoronin
- Old English: sunnan setlgang 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
- Rapa Nui: topa ra'ā
- Romanian: apus (ro) n, asfințire (ro) f, crepuscul (ro) n
- Romansh: rendida dal sulegl f
- Russian: захо́д со́лнца m (zaxód sólnca), зака́т (ru) m (zakát), (вечерняя) заря́ (ru) f (zarjá), захо́д (ru) m (zaxód)
- Sami:
- Northern Sami: beaivvášluoitádeapmi
- Southern Sami: vælloe, biejjievælloe
- Scottish Gaelic: dol fodha na grèine m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: залазак сунца m
- Latin: zalazak sunca m
- Sicilian: tracoḍḍu m
- Slovene: sončni zahod m
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: chowanje słónca n
- Spanish: puesta del sol f, puesta de sol f, puesta solar f, ocaso (es) m
- Swahili: machweo (sw)
- Swedish: solnedgång (sv) c
- Tagalog: sibsib
- Tatar: кояш бату (qoyaş batu)
- 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)
- 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)
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changes in color of sky at sunset — see also twilight
- 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
- Danish: solnedgang (da) c
- Dutch: zonsondergang (nl) m
- Estonian: päikeseloojang, päikeseloojak (rare)
- Finnish: iltarusko (fi)
- French: crépuscule (fr) m
- Galician: arrebol m
- German: Sonnenuntergang (de) m, Abendrot (de) n
- Hebrew: שקיעה (he) (shkiá)
- Hungarian: alkonypír (hu)
- Icelandic: sólsetur (is) n, sólarlag (is) n
- Indonesian: senja (id)
- 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)
- Māori: 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
- Latin: zálaz (sh) m, zalazak sunca, zalaznica (sh)
- Spanish: puesta del sol f, puesta de sol f, puesta solar f, ocaso (es) m
- Swedish: solnedgång (sv) c
- Welsh: machlud haul (cy) m, machlud (cy) m
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attributively: of or relating to the final period of life
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
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- Albanian: (please verify) perëndimi i diellit
- Lithuanian: (please verify) žara f (2)
- Old English: (please verify) sunnansetlgang m
- Woiwurrung: (please verify) kroong kontew-ngumi
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Verb
sunset (third-person singular simple present sunsets, present participle sunsetting, simple past and past participle sunsetted)
- (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[1]:Last December, Yahoo announced plans to “sunset” more well-known services, including the pioneering social bookmarking service del.icio.us.
2026 April 9, “Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore. Here’s What to Do.”, in Wirecutter[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:Here’s what you need to know about Amazon’s decision to sunset its older e-readers and tablets, and what that means for you.
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References
- ^ Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart (ed.), Chambers, 1988
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