See Also: sunset(dictionary)
sunset(dictionary)
sunset industry(dictionary)
Sunset Industry(money)
Sunset Mansion(tourism)
Sunset Beach(tourism)
Sunset Boulevard(dictionary)
Sunset Garden Resort(tourism)
Sunset Beach Resort(tourism)
Sunset Strip - Bingo(gambling)

sunset (iou)



sunset noun & verb. LME.
[App. from SUN noun1 + SET noun1, but perh. partly (like SUNRISE) from a subjunct. clause such as before the sun set.]
A. noun.
The setting of the sun at the end of the day; the time of this; the coloured or illuminated sky associated with sunset; the direction of sunset, the west. LME.
go off into the sunset, ride off into the sunset, sail off into the sunset [from a conventional closing scene of many films] (freq. iron.) achieve a happy ending.
H. B. Stowe One of those intensely golden sunsets which kindles the..horizon into one blaze of glory.
fig. The end or declining period of a time of prosperity, a person's life, etc. E17.
J. R. Illingworth The gloom that darkens, or the hope that glorifies the sunset of our days.
Comb.: sunset home (chiefly US) an old people's home; sunset industry an old and declining (esp. heavy) industry; sunset law, sunset legislation N. Amer. Politics: whereby a government agency or programme is automatically terminated at the end of a fixed period unless formally renewed; sunset shell a burrowing bivalve mollusc of the genus Gari, with a long oval shell which (in some kinds) is pinkish with ray-like markings.
b. verb. Infl. -tt-.
verb intrans. Decline, sink. rare. M20.
verb trans. N. Amer. Politics. Subject to or terminate by means of sunset legislation. L20.
sunsetting noun (arch.) = SUNSET noun 1 LME.
sunsetty adjective suggestive of sunset M19.