setting sun
Day's final descent
The setting sun is the sun as it descends toward the horizon at day's end.
The phrase evokes the colors and atmosphere of dusk: We watched the setting sun from the porch.
Figuratively, it suggests decline or the end of an era: the setting sun of the British Empire.
- duskDimming after sundown
- twilightLight after sunset
- golden hourWarm-lit period near sunset
- horizonApparent earth-sky meeting
- goldenBright yellow, or precious
orange · crimson · sinking · glow · evening · silhouette · sky · afterglow · fading · fading light · last light · west · clouds · red · warmth · descent · amber · purple
- sunsol, solar, sunspots, solar flares, solar radiation
- Horizon Viewsocean horizon, distant mountains, skyline, twilight, dusk
- twilightdusk, dawn, gloaming, eventide, nightfall
- dramatic imagerystorm clouds, lightning, silhouette, shadow, fire
- Western thingswestern, Pacific, occident, Wild West, West Africa
- allegoryAnimal Farm, Narnia, The Little Prince, religious allegory, political allegory
solar position/daily cycle
setting sundawn
Day's first glow
sunrise · daybreak · morning sun · sunup · first light
symbolic meaning
setting sunnew dawn
Start of something hopeful
dawn of a new day · break of day · morning light · new beginning · Land of the Rising Sun
setting, sun, set, sets, setter, setters, settings, sunlit, sunny