evening

[eve·ning]

The evening is the last part of the day before night falls, just when the sun is starting to go down. Most people eat dinner in the evening.

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The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum.

Noun
the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake"

Noun
the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way; "an evening at the opera"

Noun
a later concluding time period; "it was the evening of the Roman Empire"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Even

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 sum.

n.
The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.


Evening

E"ven*ing , n. [AS. 'd6fnung. See even, n., and cf. Eve.] 1. The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum.
In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose.
&hand; Sometimes, especially in the Southern parts of the United States, the afternoon is called evening. Bartlett. 2. The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory. &hand; Sometimes used adjectively; as, evening gun. "Evening Prayer." Shak. Evening flower (Bot.), a genus of iridaceous plants (Hesperantha) from the Cape of Good Hope, with sword-shaped leaves, and sweet-scented flowers which expand in the evening. -- Evening grosbeak (Zo'94l.), an American singing bird (Coccothraustes vespertina) having a very large bill. Its color is olivaceous, with the crown, wings, and tail black, and the under tail coverts yellow. So called because it sings in the evening. -- Evening primrose. See under Primrose. -- The evening star, the bright star of early evening in the western sky, soon passing below the horizon; specifically, the planet Venus; -- called also Vesper and Hesperus. During portions of the year, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are also evening stars. See Morning Star.

The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum.

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Usage Examples

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening.

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

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