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sundown

/ˈsʌnˌdaʊn/

sundown noun: sunset.

Noun

sundown (countable and uncountable, plural sundowns)

  1. (US) 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, […]1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XL”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 63
  2. (countable) A hat with a wide brim to shade the eyes from sunlight.

Verb

sundown (third-person singular simple present sundowns, present participle sundowning, simple past and past participle sundowned)

  1. (intransitive) 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."2009, Kay Cameron, Tim Rhodus, Life With God 101

sundown meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

sundown in Tamil

கதிரவன் மறைவு, அந்திப்பொழுது

sundown in Bengali

সূর্যাস্ত

sundown in Malayalam

അസ്തമയം

Examples of sundown in a sentence

  • But—and this is a big but—you have to come home by sundown.
  • If a whistle blower popped up, they'd be epsteined by sundown.
  • After sundown, we continued to Boudhanath Stupa in the east of Kathmandu.

All 18 example sentences with sundown

Synonyms of sundown

Forms of sundown

Noun
pluralsundowns
Verb
third-person singular presentsundowns
present participlesundowning
past participlesundowned
pastsundowned

Plural of sundown: sundowns

Origin of sundown

From sun + down.

Words formed from sundown

Phrases with sundown

Questions about sundown

What does sundown mean?
Sundown means sunset.
What is sundown in Tamil?
Sundown in Tamil is கதிரவன் மறைவு, அந்திப்பொழுது. See Sundown meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sundown?
Sundown can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce sundown?
Sundown is pronounced /ˈsʌnˌdaʊn/.
What is the plural of sundown?
The plural of sundown is sundowns.

Words near sundown in the dictionary

  1. sundisks
  2. sundiusite
  3. sundog
  4. sundogs
  5. Sundon
  6. sundown
  7. sundown syndrome
  8. sundown town
  9. sundown towns
  10. sundowned
  11. sundowner

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sundown (page history and authors); sundown (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sundown (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sundown (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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