Usually means: Time just after sunset begins.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dusk: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dusk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dusk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dusk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dusk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dusk, dusk: Wordnik
  7. dusk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dusk: Wiktionary
  9. dusk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dusk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dusk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dusk, dusk: Dictionary.com
  13. dusk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dusk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Dusk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dusk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dusk: Rhymezone
  19. dusk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dusk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dusk: Free Dictionary
  22. dusk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dusk: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. dusk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. dusk: Legal dictionary

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  1. dusk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DUSK: Acronym Finder
  3. dusk: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dusk: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See dusking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
noun:  The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
noun:  A darkish colour.
noun:  The condition of being dusky; duskiness
verb:  (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
verb:  (transitive) To make dusk.

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