Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sunset"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sunset \Sun"set"\, Sunsetting \Sun"set`ting\, n.
1. The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time
when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively.
'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.
--Campbell.
2. Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west.
{Sunset shell} (Zo["o]l.), a West Indian marine bivalve
({Tellina radiata}) having a smooth shell marked with
radiating bands of varied colors resembling those seen at
sunset or before sunrise; -- called also {rising sun}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sunset
adj 1: of a declining industry or technology; "sunset industries"
2: providing for termination; "a program with a sunset
provision" [syn: {sunset(a)}]
n 1: the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall
below the horizon [syn: {sundown}] [ant: {dawn}]
2: atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance
of the sun
3: the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon
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