setting sunn.

Brit.

/ˌsɛtɪŋ ˈsʌn/, U.S.

/ˌsɛdɪŋ ˈsən/

Forms: see setting adj. and sun n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: setting adj., sun n.¹

Etymology: < setting adj. + sun n.¹ Compare rising sun n.With sense 2 compare Occident n. and its etymon classical Latin occidēns.

a. The sun as it sinks below or nears the horizon in the evening. Also: the light emitted by the sun as it sets; evening sunlight.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sun > [noun] > at specific time or position

suneOE

rising sun1557

setting sun1560

noon-sun1601

midnight sun1787

noon1858

the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > twilight > glow of sunset or evening twilight

gloamingc1000

twilight1412

setting sun1560

aftershine1834

afterglow1848

sundown1850

afterlight1923

1560 J. Heywood tr. Seneca Thyestes iv. sig. Diii Him selfe vnwoonted there to lodge lykewyse, dothe settyng Sun againe the mornyng see, And now commaundes the darknes vp to ryse, before the night to come prepared bee.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 541 The setting Sun Slowly descended.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 83 Nor plant it to receive the setting Sun.

1709 A. Pope Autumn in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 739 The setting Sun now shone serenely bright.

1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion I. i. vii The setting sun glared wildly from the summit of the hills.

1853 E. S. Sheppard Charles Auchester III. 230 By candleshine, or the setting sun.

1915 G. C. M. Birdwood Sva 59 The whole paradisaical scene shining in the setting sun with the transcendent resplendence of its various verds and shimmering gold.

1985 R. Awad tr. N. Mahfouz Beginning & End (1989) lix. 271 Traces of the setting sun fell on the top story on the other side of the road.

2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Property Suppl.) 1/5 Beckman likes to sit in the belvedere, a drink close at hand, and watch the setting sun.

b. A depiction or stylized representation of the sun disappearing below the horizon; spec. a heraldic representation of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of heavenly bodies or phenomena > [noun] > sun

sun1572

splendour1766

setting sun1779

1779 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad., 1778 31 It is so unlike what any other Painters have given us of Moon-light, that it might be easily mistaken, if he had not likewise added Stars, for a fainter setting Sun.

1888 N.Y. Geneal. & Biogr. Rec. Oct. 161 The motto indicates a setting sun in the charge.

1916 Archit. Rec. Jan. 54/1 Many of the eagles or setting suns were painted in gold leaf upon the glass itself.

2005 G. R. R. Martin Feast for Crows 271 One unfurled his banner, a great black longship against a setting sun.

a. With the. The region or direction in which the sun sets; the west. Cf. rising sun n. 2. Frequently literary and poetic.Sometimes overlapping with and difficult to distinguish from sense 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > West > [noun]

westc1300

Occidentc1390

ponent1538

west1564

sunsetting1571

setting sun1590

set of day1623

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Bb5^v Full many Countreyes they did ouerronne, From the vprising to the setting Sunne, And many hard aduentures did atchieue.

1609 A. Gardyne Garden Grave & Godlie Flowres sig. I2^v There may thou view from East, And from the setting Sunne, Elected Legats send, and from Remottest Regions runne.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 484 Where England, stretch'd towards the setting sun,..o'erlooks the western wave.

1841 J. F. Cooper Deerslayer II. xii. 206 You are a man whose fathers came from beyond the rising sun; we are children of the setting sun.

1892 J. T. Bent Ruined Cities Mashonaland vi. 161 To orient it towards the setting sun.

1947 Times 13 Aug. 5/7 The replenished Lancaster, now with ample fuel for the remaining 1,900-mile crossing, flew towards the setting sun.

2010 Day (New London, Connecticut) (Nexis) 22 Mar. (State & Regional News section) The remaining crew members were ordered to steer the Amistad back to Africa—away from the setting sun.

b. land (also country, etc.) of the setting sun: used to denote a country, region, etc., located in or associated with the west. Cf. land of the rising sun at rising sun n. Phrases.

ΚΠ

a1771 J. Gambold Martyrdom of Ignatius (1773) v. ii. 104 I a bishop from the distant East, Now see the countries of the setting sun.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches New & Old (1875) 69 High Muck-a-mucks, the paleface from the land of the setting sun greets you!

1883 J. Fraser Shanty 56 George, like many of his young compatriots, is smitten with the Manitoban fever, and is off to the land of the setting sun.

1992 M. J. Lakeland tr. F. Mernissi Islam & Democracy i. 13 The territory of the setting sun is also the territory of the faraway, of what is elsewhere.

2005 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 20 May (Features section) 11 Maybe there's a bit of Celt in us that has inherited some lingering bond with the west. Perhaps our romantic side leans toward the land of the setting sun.

a. The sinking of the sun below the horizon in the evening (esp. as marking or representing the end of the day) or the time when this occurs; sunset. Now somewhat rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [noun] > setting

sunsetOE

going downa1382

downhielda1400

downfalling1422

downgate1440

gate-downc1440

sunsetting1440

going under1490

occasionc1540

going to1581

setting sun1591

set of day1623

earthrise1918

1591 R. Wilmot Tancred & Gismund Epil. sig. H4 Thus end our sorrowes with the setting Sun: Now draw the curtens for our Scæne is done.

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iii. sig. H2^v Then Genoa mine, by my Mariaes match, Which Ile solemnize ere next setting Sun.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 142 His Griefs with Day begun, Nor were they finish'd with the setting Sun.

1763 B. Martin Young Gentleman & Lady's Philos. II. iv. 61 The small Angle which the Ecliptic now makes with the Horizon is the Reason why so small a Motion of the Globe is necessary to make the Moon rise after the setting Sun.

1832 Polish Chiefs I. vi. 133 Every year about this time, her spirit is seen to walk up the side of the mountain at the setting sun, and vanish as he goes down!

1952 Washington Post 5 May 3 b/2 Guests stayed long after the setting sun.

2012 Wentworth Courier (Nexis) 25 Apr. (Main Book ed.) 193 The rock [sc. Uluru] turns to brown and black after the setting sun.

b. figurative and in figurative contexts (chiefly poetic). The end of a person's life; a person's declining years or death. Often with possessive adjective. Now rare.With quot. 1931 compare sense 2b.See also one's sun is (also has) set at sun n.¹ Phrases 2a(c), the sun has set on (something) at sun n.¹ Phrases 2a(d).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun]

eld971

old agec1330

agec1380

last agea1382

oldc1385

aldereldea1400

winterc1425

vilessec1430

annosityc1450

senectute1481

the black ox1546

golden years1559

years1561

great1587

afterlife1589

setting sun1597

antiquity1600

chair-daysa1616

the vale of yearsa1616

grandevity1623

green old age1634

eldship1647

senioritya1688

the other side of the hill1691

the decline of life1711

senectude1756

senility1791

senectitude1796

post-climacteric1826

Anno Domini1885

senium1911

golden age1946

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 12 The setting Sunne, and Musike at the close, As the last taste of sweetes is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 136 But 'tis too late, my glorious Race is run, And a dark Cloud o'ertakes my setting Sun.

1788 W. Cowper in Yearly Bill Mortality Parish All-Saints (Northampton) 1787–8 (single sheet) Told that his setting Sun would rise no more.

1870 J. Hurnard Setting Sun v. 220 My setting sun gleams in the west, And I have lost the friends whose gratulations Would have been sweeter than the breath of fame.

1927 E. A. Robinson Tristram viii. 164 Having outwalked His hours, he yielded to the setting sun.

1931 E. C. Porter Life Lines 24 Tribute to Old Age... To the Land—of the Setting Sun, To the Land—where our work is done, To the Land—where remains Sweet old time refrains, To the Land—of dear Memories.

4. Conchology. Either of two sunset shells (marine bivalve molluscs of the family Psammobiidae); esp. Gari depressa (formerly Psammobia vespertina), found mainly in the western North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Also attributive. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Tellinidae

tellina1657

tellin1706

tellinet1708

setting sun1823

tulip-shell1835

pipia1837

1823 J. Mawe Linn. Syst. Conchol. ii. 21 (table) [Solen] Occidens... Setting Sun.

1838 T. Wyatt Man. Conchol. 42 S[anguinolaria] occidens. The setting-sun Sanguinolaria.

1851 J. E. Gray List Specimens Brit. Animals Brit. Mus. VII. 35 Psammobia vespertinus (The Setting Sun).

1867 M. S. Lovell Edible Mollusks Great Brit. & Ireland 150 Psammobia vespertina, Chemnitz. The Setting Sun.

1912 F. M. Duncan Seashore viii. 145 Many of the bivalve shells are most beautifully marked and coloured: a great favourite is the ‘Setting Sun’, a lovely pink shell with pale bands radiating from the beak to the margin, like the rays of the sun at sunset.

2009 P. Chambers Brit. Seashells 172 The historical name for Gari depressa was for many years the ‘setting sun shell’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	setting sun
释义	setting sunn. Brit. /ˌsɛtɪŋ ˈsʌn/, U.S. /ˌsɛdɪŋ ˈsən/ Forms: see setting adj. and sun n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: setting adj., sun n.¹ Etymology: < setting adj. + sun n.¹ Compare rising sun n.With sense 2 compare Occident n. and its etymon classical Latin occidēns. 1. a. The sun as it sinks below or nears the horizon in the evening. Also: the light emitted by the sun as it sets; evening sunlight. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sun > [noun] > at specific time or position suneOE rising sun1557 setting sun1560 noon-sun1601 midnight sun1787 noon1858 the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > twilight > glow of sunset or evening twilight gloamingc1000 twilight1412 setting sun1560 aftershine1834 afterglow1848 sundown1850 afterlight1923 1560 J. Heywood tr. Seneca Thyestes iv. sig. Diii Him selfe vnwoonted there to lodge lykewyse, dothe settyng Sun againe the mornyng see, And now commaundes the darknes vp to ryse, before the night to come prepared bee. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 541 The setting Sun Slowly descended. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 83 Nor plant it to receive the setting Sun. 1709 A. Pope Autumn in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. vi. 739 The setting Sun now shone serenely bright. 1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion I. i. vii The setting sun glared wildly from the summit of the hills. 1853 E. S. Sheppard Charles Auchester III. 230 By candleshine, or the setting sun. 1915 G. C. M. Birdwood Sva 59 The whole paradisaical scene shining in the setting sun with the transcendent resplendence of its various verds and shimmering gold. 1985 R. Awad tr. N. Mahfouz Beginning & End (1989) lix. 271 Traces of the setting sun fell on the top story on the other side of the road. 2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Property Suppl.) 1/5 Beckman likes to sit in the belvedere, a drink close at hand, and watch the setting sun. b. A depiction or stylized representation of the sun disappearing below the horizon; spec. a heraldic representation of this. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of heavenly bodies or phenomena > [noun] > sun sun1572 splendour1766 setting sun1779 1779 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad., 1778 31 It is so unlike what any other Painters have given us of Moon-light, that it might be easily mistaken, if he had not likewise added Stars, for a fainter setting Sun. 1888 N.Y. Geneal. & Biogr. Rec. Oct. 161 The motto indicates a setting sun in the charge. 1916 Archit. Rec. Jan. 54/1 Many of the eagles or setting suns were painted in gold leaf upon the glass itself. 2005 G. R. R. Martin Feast for Crows 271 One unfurled his banner, a great black longship against a setting sun. 2. a. With the. The region or direction in which the sun sets; the west. Cf. rising sun n. 2. Frequently literary and poetic.Sometimes overlapping with and difficult to distinguish from sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > West > [noun] westc1300 Occidentc1390 ponent1538 west1564 sunsetting1571 setting sun1590 set of day1623 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Bb5^v Full many Countreyes they did ouerronne, From the vprising to the setting Sunne, And many hard aduentures did atchieue. 1609 A. Gardyne Garden Grave & Godlie Flowres sig. I2^v There may thou view from East, And from the setting Sunne, Elected Legats send, and from Remottest Regions runne. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 484 Where England, stretch'd towards the setting sun,..o'erlooks the western wave. 1841 J. F. Cooper Deerslayer II. xii. 206 You are a man whose fathers came from beyond the rising sun; we are children of the setting sun. 1892 J. T. Bent Ruined Cities Mashonaland vi. 161 To orient it towards the setting sun. 1947 Times 13 Aug. 5/7 The replenished Lancaster, now with ample fuel for the remaining 1,900-mile crossing, flew towards the setting sun. 2010 Day (New London, Connecticut) (Nexis) 22 Mar. (State & Regional News section) The remaining crew members were ordered to steer the Amistad back to Africa—away from the setting sun. b. land (also country, etc.) of the setting sun: used to denote a country, region, etc., located in or associated with the west. Cf. land of the rising sun at rising sun n. Phrases. ΚΠ a1771 J. Gambold Martyrdom of Ignatius (1773) v. ii. 104 I a bishop from the distant East, Now see the countries of the setting sun. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches New & Old (1875) 69 High Muck-a-mucks, the paleface from the land of the setting sun greets you! 1883 J. Fraser Shanty 56 George, like many of his young compatriots, is smitten with the Manitoban fever, and is off to the land of the setting sun. 1992 M. J. Lakeland tr. F. Mernissi Islam & Democracy i. 13 The territory of the setting sun is also the territory of the faraway, of what is elsewhere. 2005 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 20 May (Features section) 11 Maybe there's a bit of Celt in us that has inherited some lingering bond with the west. Perhaps our romantic side leans toward the land of the setting sun. 3. a. The sinking of the sun below the horizon in the evening (esp. as marking or representing the end of the day) or the time when this occurs; sunset. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sun > solar movement > [noun] > setting sunsetOE going downa1382 downhielda1400 downfalling1422 downgate1440 gate-downc1440 sunsetting1440 going under1490 occasionc1540 going to1581 setting sun1591 set of day1623 earthrise1918 1591 R. Wilmot Tancred & Gismund Epil. sig. H4 Thus end our sorrowes with the setting Sun: Now draw the curtens for our Scæne is done. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iii. sig. H2^v Then Genoa mine, by my Mariaes match, Which Ile solemnize ere next setting Sun. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 142 His Griefs with Day begun, Nor were they finish'd with the setting Sun. 1763 B. Martin Young Gentleman & Lady's Philos. II. iv. 61 The small Angle which the Ecliptic now makes with the Horizon is the Reason why so small a Motion of the Globe is necessary to make the Moon rise after the setting Sun. 1832 Polish Chiefs I. vi. 133 Every year about this time, her spirit is seen to walk up the side of the mountain at the setting sun, and vanish as he goes down! 1952 Washington Post 5 May 3 b/2 Guests stayed long after the setting sun. 2012 Wentworth Courier (Nexis) 25 Apr. (Main Book ed.) 193 The rock [sc. Uluru] turns to brown and black after the setting sun. b. figurative and in figurative contexts (chiefly poetic). The end of a person's life; a person's declining years or death. Often with possessive adjective. Now rare.With quot. 1931 compare sense 2b.See also one's sun is (also has) set at sun n.¹ Phrases 2a(c), the sun has set on (something) at sun n.¹ Phrases 2a(d). ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun] eld971 old agec1330 agec1380 last agea1382 oldc1385 aldereldea1400 winterc1425 vilessec1430 annosityc1450 senectute1481 the black ox1546 golden years1559 years1561 great1587 afterlife1589 setting sun1597 antiquity1600 chair-daysa1616 the vale of yearsa1616 grandevity1623 green old age1634 eldship1647 senioritya1688 the other side of the hill1691 the decline of life1711 senectude1756 senility1791 senectitude1796 post-climacteric1826 Anno Domini1885 senium1911 golden age1946 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 12 The setting Sunne, and Musike at the close, As the last taste of sweetes is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past. 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 136 But 'tis too late, my glorious Race is run, And a dark Cloud o'ertakes my setting Sun. 1788 W. Cowper in Yearly Bill Mortality Parish All-Saints (Northampton) 1787–8 (single sheet) Told that his setting Sun would rise no more. 1870 J. Hurnard Setting Sun v. 220 My setting sun gleams in the west, And I have lost the friends whose gratulations Would have been sweeter than the breath of fame. 1927 E. A. Robinson Tristram viii. 164 Having outwalked His hours, he yielded to the setting sun. 1931 E. C. Porter Life Lines 24 Tribute to Old Age... To the Land—of the Setting Sun, To the Land—where our work is done, To the Land—where remains Sweet old time refrains, To the Land—of dear Memories. 4. Conchology. Either of two sunset shells (marine bivalve molluscs of the family Psammobiidae); esp. Gari depressa (formerly Psammobia vespertina), found mainly in the western North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Also attributive. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Tellinidae tellina1657 tellin1706 tellinet1708 setting sun1823 tulip-shell1835 pipia1837 1823 J. Mawe Linn. Syst. Conchol. ii. 21 (table) [Solen] Occidens... Setting Sun. 1838 T. Wyatt Man. Conchol. 42 S[anguinolaria] occidens. The setting-sun Sanguinolaria. 1851 J. E. Gray List Specimens Brit. Animals Brit. Mus. VII. 35 Psammobia vespertinus (The Setting Sun). 1867 M. S. Lovell Edible Mollusks Great Brit. & Ireland 150 Psammobia vespertina, Chemnitz. The Setting Sun. 1912 F. M. Duncan Seashore viii. 145 Many of the bivalve shells are most beautifully marked and coloured: a great favourite is the ‘Setting Sun’, a lovely pink shell with pale bands radiating from the beak to the margin, like the rays of the sun at sunset. 2009 P. Chambers Brit. 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