Day and Sunset

Day

Day noun - The first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance.
Usage example: at the break of day I was relieved to realize that I had survived another night in the wilderness

Sunset is an antonym for day.

Nearby Word: daytime

Sunset

Sunset noun - The time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness.
Usage example: the glow of the western sky at sunset

Day is an antonym for sunset.

How words are described

full full day full sunset
glorious glorious day glorious sunset
exact exact day exact sunset
warm warm day warm sunset
Other adjectives: normal, certain, current, original, entire, real, big, bad, cloudy, novel, beautiful, peaceful, past, final, extra, next, last, different, red.

Both words in one sentence

  • Watching the Sunset On Spongebob Squarepants, in "Dying For Pie", Squidward thought SpongeBob was going to explode at sunset, so he spent the day doing everything SpongeBob wanted to do and then watched the sunset while he waited for the explosion.
  • Sunset Grill: The day-to-day life of the staff and patrons of a bar on a dysfunctional future earth.
  • Similarly to how the chime plays at the end of a school day in Japan, the sunset in the Pikmin games is marked with the Westminster chimes.
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