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sundown

noun
/ˈsʌnˌdaʊn/

Etymology

From sun + down.

  1. derived from *dʰewh₂-✻
  2. derived from *dūnom✻
  3. derived from *dʰewh₂-✻ — “smoke, haze, dust”
  4. inherited from *dūnaz✻
  5. inherited from *dūnā✻ — “sandhill, dune”
  6. inherited from dūn
  7. inherited from doune
  8. compounded as sundown — “sun + down”

Definitions

  1. Sunset.

    • We’ll meet by the pier at sundown.
    • Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor ⁠An inner trouble I behold, ⁠A spectral doubt which makes me cold, That I shall be thy mate no more, […]

  2. A hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes from sunlight.

  3. to experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation,…

    to experience an episode or an onset of some detrimental mental condition like agitation, anxiety, hallucination or dementia, daily at the approach of nightfall.

    • "She also “sundowned”, and someone had to keep an eye on her 24-7."

The neighborhood

Derived

sundown syndrome, sundown town

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sundown. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA