Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The period of decreasing daylight between afternoon and night.
- n. The period between sunset or the evening meal and bedtime: a quiet evening at home.
- n. A later period or time: in the evening of one's life.
- n. Chiefly Southern U.S. The time from noon to twilight.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; the decline or fall of the day, or of the sun; the time from sunset till darkness; in common usage, the latter part of the afternoon and the earlier part of the night before bedtime.
- n. Hence The decline or latter part of any state or term of existence: as, the evening of life; the evening of his power.
- n. The time between noon and dark, including afternoon and twilight.
- n. The delivery at evening of a certain portion of grass or corn to a customary tenant.
- Being, or occurring at, or associated with the close of day: as, the evening sacrifice.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of even.
- n. The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
- n. The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.
- n. figuratively A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sun.
- n. The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a later concluding time period
- n. the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way
- n. the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
Etymologies
- Old English ǣfnung, from æfnian, corresponding to even (Etymology 3) + -ing. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English ǣfnung, from ǣfnian, to become evening, from ǣfen, evening. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“When candles are brought into the tent at night, the servant wishes the company a good evening: he says "_M'sah elkhere_," the literal meaning of which is "_Good be with you this evening_;" which salutation it is courteous to return, even to a slave; and if any one, however great his rank, were not to return it, he would be considered a bad muselman, a disaffected and inhospitable barbarian.”
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
“In many cultures, the term evening is linked to the time of day when people have their main meal of the day.”
“In many cultures the term evening is linked to time of day when people have their main meal of the day.”
“The bulls emerged in the late hours of the trading session to attack the bears - so the term evening attack.”
“By chance this evening is also a meeting for parents, etc., of gifted students and I agreed to go to that since it's downtown and they're going to provide my dinner (and it gets done before Wyrdsmiths starts).”
“Senate: The first big race to watch of the evening is the race for Jim Bunning's seat that pits Rand Paul (R, son of Ron Paul, a Tea Party and libertarian favorite) against Jack Conway (D, State Attorney General).”
“But for Leatherman, the evening is about to get even better.”
“His flash and dash speech this evening is a waste of hot air.”
“Your behaviour the other evening is adding momentum to this movement, and for that I would lile to thank you.”
“Highlighting the evening is the luminaria service, a candlelight vigil held at nightfall to honor survivors and to remember those lost to cancer.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘evening’.
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steffany(grade 2)
accident, agree, arrive, astronomy, attention, award, aware, balance, banner, bare, base, beach and 127 more...
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jackgrade2
accident, agree, arrive, astronomy, atlas, attention, award, aware, balance, banner, bare, base and 127 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Nycanthro's list
I like words. Have kept running lists for years now. If I'd been born wealthy I'd be a linguist. Or maybe a semi-reclusive yet world-weary linguist-humanitarian-hiphop-icon known for his humility a...
oaktag, backstory, homonormative, gobshite, imagineer, comeuppance, tomfoolery, ersatz, widdershins, gigajoule, oneupmanship, conniption and 40 more...
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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Bi-sonics
Allophonic homographs. Words that are pronounced at least 2 ways, having different senses. 'august' and 'polish' are less ambiguous since capitalization make the correct pronunciation clear (at lea...
sow, row, dove, polish, precedent, rewet, lower, read, bass, patent, primer, tear and 102 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Words I like as names
It's exactly what it sounds like. And yeah, for real people as much as characters. Big surprise.
corbeau, alameda, hanabi, milk, promise, edelweiss, delphinium, jubilate, jubilance, jocoserious, arrow, angeles and 141 more...
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Yet more words
hootowling, hoot owl, midday, prohibitive, shutdown, gerund, tripe, doweling, detestable, good measure, boojum, undergirding and 167 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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adrift's Words
alluvial, motley, amygdala, skein, echo, lucent, evening, clasp, weft, ruinous, waver, eave and 122 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for evening.
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