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sunset

n. the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon

sunset

n. atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun

sundown

n. the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon

sunset

adj. providing for termination; "a program with a sunset provision"

sunset

adj. of a declining industry or technology; "sunset industries"

antepenultimate

adj. third from last

terminal, endmost

adj. being or situated at an end; "the endmost pillar"; "terminal buds on a branch"; "a terminal station"; "the terminal syllable"

parting, Parthian

adj. delivered at the moment of parting as if in flight or retreat; "paused to deliver a parting shot at the door"; "a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy"- Bret Harte

penultimate, next-to-last

adj. next to the last; "the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in the next-to-last column"

senior, fourth-year

adj. used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college; "the senior prom"

subterminal

adj. near but not precisely at an end; "a subterminal band of color on the tail feathers"

ultimate

adj. being the last or concluding element of a series; "the ultimate sonata of that opus"; "a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable"

auld

adj. a Scottish word; "auld lang syne"

age-old, ancient

adj. belonging to or lasting from times long ago; "age-old customs"; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness"

antediluvian, antiquated, archaic

adj. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"

antique

adj. made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; "the beautiful antique French furniture"

hand-me-down, hand-down, secondhand, used

adj. passed along for further use by others

hoary, rusty

adj. ancient; "hoary jokes"

ancient, immemorial

adj. belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece"

longtime, long-standing

adj. of long duration; "a longtime friend"

patched

adj. mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch; "patched jeans"

yellow, yellowed

adj. changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment"

morning, dawn, sunrise, aurora, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, sunup, cockcrow, first light, break of the day, break of day

n. the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"

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