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English

Etymology

From Middle English scarlet, scarlat, borrowed from Old French escarlate (“a type of cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”). This was long thought to derive from Persian ??????? (saqerlât, “a warm woollen cloth”), but the Persian word (first attested in the 1290s) is now thought to be from Arabic ?????????? (siqill?t), denoting very expensive, luxury silks dyed scarlet-red using the exceptionally expensive dye, first attested around the ninth century. The most obvious route for the Arabic word siqill?t to have entered the Romance languages would be via the Arabic-speaking Iberian region of Al-Andalus, particularly Almería, where kermes was produced extensively. The word then came to be used of woollen cloth dyed with the same dye.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk??l?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk??l?t/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?sk??l?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)l?t
• Hyphenation: scar?let

Noun

scarlet (plural scarlets)

1. A brilliant red colour tinged with orange.

2. Cloth of a scarlet color.

   • All her household are clothed with scarlet.

Synonyms

• scarlet red

Translations

Adjective

scarlet (comparative more scarlet, superlative most scarlet)

1. Of a bright red colour.

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. Sinful or whorish.

3. (Ireland) Tragic or disappointing.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Verb

scarlet (third-person singular simple present scarlets, present participle scarleting, simple past and past participle scarleted)

1. To dye or tinge with scarlet.
   • 1632, John Ford, Love's Sacrifice

     The ashy paleness of my cheek / Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of wrath.

References

Anagrams

• Clarets, arclets, cartels, castler, castrel, clarets, crestal, lacerts, rectals

English

Etymology

From Middle English son-sett, Sonne set, equivalent to sun +? set. In Gower's Confessio Amantis, before 1393.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n?s?t/

Noun

sunset (countable and uncountable, plural sunsets)

1. The time of day when the sun disappears below the western horizon.

2. The changes in color of the sky at sunset.
3. (figuratively) The final period of the life of a person or thing.

4. (attributively) Having a set termination date.

   The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.

5. The region where the sun sets; the west.

Synonyms

• (time): dusk, sundown (US), nightfall, twilight; see also Thesaurus:dusk
• (change in color of the sky at sunset):
• (final period of life): end, final act, swansong
• (attributively: of or relating to the final period of life): last, terminal, twilight

Antonyms

• sunrise

Derived terms

• sunset clause
• sunset crop
• sunset industry
• sunset law
• sunset provision
• sunset shell
• sunsetty
• sunset years

Translations

Verb

sunset (third-person singular simple present sunsets, present participle sunsetting, simple past and past participle sunsetted)

1. (business, politics, transitive) To phase out.

   We’ll be sunsetting version 1.9 of the software shortly after releasing version 2.0 next quarter.

Translations

See also

• moonset

References

Anagrams

• unsets