SUNDOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sundown mean? 

• SUNDOWN (noun)
  The noun SUNDOWN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SUNDOWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUNDOWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

sundown; sunset

Hypernyms ("sundown" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

Holonyms ("sundown" is a part of...):

eve; even; evening; eventide (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall))

 Context examples 

Yesterday I came here before sundown, for at sundown the Un-Dead can move.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I'll fire a gun half an hour before sundown.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“It is in my thoughts,” said Black Simon, still pensively grinding his sword, “that we may have need of your strings ere sundown. I dreamed of the red cow last night.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Em'ly, said he, arter you left her, ma'am—and I never heerd her saying of her prayers at night, t'other side the canvas screen, when we was settled in the Bush, but what I heerd your name—and arter she and me lost sight of Mas'r Davy, that theer shining sundown—was that low, at first, that, if she had know'd then what Mas'r Davy kep from us so kind and thowtful, 'tis my opinion she'd have drooped away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Last night there was no exodus, so to-night before the sundown I took away my garlic and other things.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Now, just after sundown, when all my work was over and I was on my way to my berth, it occurred to me that I should like an apple.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

From dawn to sundown the long train wound through the pass, their breath reeking up upon the frosty air like the steam from a cauldron.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was just at sundown when we cast anchor in a most beautiful land-locked gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half-bloods selling fruits and vegetables and offering to dive for bits of money.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But we must on, if we are to be there before the drawbridge rises at the vespers bugle; for it is likely that Sir Nigel, being so renowned a soldier, may keep hard discipline within the walls, and let no man enter after sundown.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)