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sundown

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noun

sunset, especially the time of sunset.

verb (used without object)

Psychiatry. to experience confusion or hallucinations at night as a result of strange surroundings, drug effects, decreased sensory input, or reduction of oxygen supply to the brain.

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dusk, evening, twilight

Origin of sundown

First recorded in 1610–20; sun + down1
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Contemporary Examples of sundown

Historical Examples of sundown

  • We camped at sundown on a grassy rise, without water for our horses.

  • We sighted the range and hill seen by my brother, and reached it at sundown.

  • By sundown we had reached the chef-lieu of the Aveyron; we were in the South indeed!

    The Roof of France

    Matilda Betham-Edwards

  • At sundown of the second day he began to complain of the irksomeness of his bonds.

    The Leopard Woman

    Stewart Edward White

  • About sundown the doctor came back and dressed their wounds.

    Fair Margaret

    H. Rider Haggard

British Dictionary definitions for sundown

sundown

noun

another name for sunset
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for sundown
n.

1610s, from sun (n.) + down (adv.).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper