sunset

Etymology
From, , equivalent to. In Gower's Confessio Amantis, before 1393.

Noun

 * 1) The moment each evening when the sun disappears below the western horizon.
 * 2) The changes in color of the sky before and after sunset.
 * 3)  The final period of the life of a person or thing.
 * 4)  A set termination date.
 * The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.
 * 1) The region where the sun sets; the west.
 * 1)  A set termination date.
 * The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.
 * 1) The region where the sun sets; the west.
 * 1) The region where the sun sets; the west.

Synonyms

 * ,, , ; see also Thesaurus:dusk

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: غُرُوب,
 * Armenian: ,
 * Avar: тӏерхьин
 * Belarusian: за́хад со́нца
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: posta de sol,
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee: ᏭᏕᎵᎬ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: západ slunce
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Elfdalian: suolniðgaungg
 * Esperanto:, sunfalo
 * Estonian: päikeseloojang, päikeseloojak
 * Faroese: sólsetur
 * Finnish:, illansuu
 * French:
 * Galician: posta de sol, solpor
 * Georgian: მზის ჩასვლა, დაისი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Greenlandic: seqerngup tarrinnera
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:, , sólfall
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: päivänlasku
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 해넘이,, 일락(日落)
 * Latin: crepusculum, occasus
 * Latvian:
 * Low German: Sünnünnergang
 * Luxembourgish: Sonnenënnergang
 * Macedonian: зајдисонце
 * Malayalam:
 * Mizo: ni tlâk
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl: aqui in tonatiuh
 * Navajo: iʼííʼą́ągo
 * Norman: couochi du solé
 * Northern Sami: beaivvášluoitádeapmi
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk: soleglad
 * Old English: sunnan setlgang
 * Old High German: sunnūn sedalgang
 * Oromo: lixa biiftuu
 * Ossetian: хуры аныгуылд
 * Panamint: tape ikanna
 * Plautdietsch: Sonnunjagank
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, , , , ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Romansch: rendida dal sulegl
 * Russian: захо́д со́лнца,, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: dol fodha na grèine
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: залазак сунца
 * Roman: zalazak sunca
 * Sicilian: tracoḍḍu,
 * Slovene: sončni zahod
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: chowanje słónca
 * Southern Altai: ажар
 * Southern Ohlone: sosoronin
 * Southern Sami: vælloe, biejjievælloe
 * Spanish: puesta del sol, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sibsib
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: เพล้โพล้,, ตอนค่ำ, ตกค่ำ
 * Tibetan: ཉི་ནུབ, ཉི་རྒས
 * Tocharian B: kauṃ-yaptsi
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvan: кежээки хаяа
 * Ukrainian: за́хід со́нця
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:, modonikam sola
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yiddish: זונפֿאַרגאַנג, זונפֿאַרגאַנגען, זון־אונטערגאַנג, זון־אונטערגאַנגען


 * Arabic: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: západ slunce
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: päikeseloojang, päikeseloojak
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: arrebol
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: ថ្ងៃលិច
 * Korean: 저녁놀,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ڕۆژ ئاوا
 * Latin: crepusculum
 * Macedonian: залез, зајдисонце
 * Maori: kokomea
 * Navajo: iʼííʼą́
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: захо́д со́лнца,, (вечерняя) заря́
 * Scottish Gaelic: dol fodha na grèine
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: за́лаз, залазак сунца, залазница
 * Roman:, zalazak sunca,
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: ,


 * Arabic: خَاتِمَة, قَيَامَة
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: alderens efterår
 * Estonian: eluloojang
 * Finnish:, , elämän ehtoo
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: crepusculum
 * Macedonian: залез
 * Malayalam:
 * Mizo: chawhnû, ni tlâk
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Welsh: ,


 * Arabic: خِتَامِي
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:


 * Albanian:
 * Lithuanian: ;
 * Old English:

Verb

 * 1)  To phase out.

Translations

 * Danish: udfase
 * Hungarian: ,