Dark
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English
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Etymology
Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
From Old English dark, derk, deork, Anglo-Saxon dearc, deorc; compare with Gaelic & Irish dorch, dorcha; dark, black, dusky.
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Pronunciation
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Adjective
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- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- hidden, secret
- 1605: Meantime we shall express our darker pupose. — William Shakespeare, King Lear I.i
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign
- (of colour) not bright or light, deeper in hue
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Noun
dark
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- Ignorance (to be kept in the dark)
- Nightfall (after dark)
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Phrases
- after dark = after night has fallen
- at dark = during nightfall
- before dark = before night starts falling
- the dark side = a distinctly negative ethical paradigm (see Wikipedia article).fr:dark
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