sunset

The time in the evening when the sun disappears below the line where land or sea meets sky.

• We walked home at sunset.
• The sunset turned the clouds pink.
• Have you seen the sunsets from this beach?

Similar words: sundown

Opposites: sunrise

Common phrases: at sunset, watch the sunset, beautiful sunset

The last part of someone's life or of something's existence.

• He enjoyed his sunset years by the sea.
• She found peace in the sunset of her life.
• The book describes the sunset of a once powerful empire.

Similar words: decline

Common phrases: sunset years, sunset of life

A fixed date when a law, rule, or arrangement stops applying unless it is renewed.

• The law includes a sunset clause.
• They set a sunset of five years for the agreement.
• The tax exemption has a sunset provision requiring renewal.

Similar words: expiry date, expiration date

Common phrases: sunset clause, sunset provision, statutory sunset

To gradually stop providing or using a product, service, or system.

• We plan to sunset this service.
• The company sunsetted its oldest software last year.
• They are sunsetting the platform as customers move to its replacement.

Similar words: phase out, discontinue, retire

Common phrases: sunset a product, sunset a service, sunset old software