beautiful sunset
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hermoso atardecer
- A beautiful sunset.
Now imagine Charlize Theron on a beach with a beautiful sunset.
- Now imagine Charlize Theron on a beach with a beautiful sunset.
- We're like, it feels like we're on our honeymoon again and we're watching this beautiful sunset and look over at Christie's purse.
- I was trying to do some fiction, enjoying beautiful sunsets, hanging out with this cool dog who was who was so much fun, and occasionally going to a party.
- And so I have this cool flow of animals doing weird things, beautiful sunsets, et cetera, Very, very funny onion headlines and then some friends.
Examples
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The other night, I saw the most beautiful sunset imaginable!
Fiction book (1990) -
There's a beautiful sunset.
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You know, it's going to be a beautiful sunset.
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There was this beautiful sunset.
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At the end of one of these, while I was driving home, I saw the most beautiful sunset.
Blog text (19) -
I hear they have beautiful sunsets down there.
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That was a beautiful sunset, and it was nice to just, like, stop and watch it, wasn't it?
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Watching a beautiful sunset or listening to Rachmaninoff makes my spirits soar.
Fiction book (1992) -
Beautiful sunsets every day.
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In the evening, he watched a beautiful sunset over the ocean.
Synonyms
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The time in the evening when the sun goes below the horizon and daylight fades
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A very beautiful scene you see from a place like a mountain or sea
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The time of day when the sun goes below the horizon
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is fully compositional: 'beautiful' (very pleasing) modifies 'sunset' (the sun's disappearance), so the overall meaning is directly derivable from the constituents. This adjective + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The phrase beautiful sunset comes from the simple image of people watching the sun go down while the sky fills with bright colors. Because sunset is the sun going down and beautiful means 'pleasing', the phrase now means a very pleasing, colorful view of the sun as it disappears.