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The time of day between afternoon and night.countableuncountable
- Toward evening, there was heavy rain.
- I met my wife on a summer's evening in 1999.
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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.countableuncountable
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society,
- That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seeme
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A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.countablefigurativelyuncountable
- It was the evening of the Roman Empire.
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A party or gathering held in the evening.countableuncountable
- A few Gorllewin Cymru/West Wales Branch members attended an evening at the Dragon Hotel, Swansea, titled Photographic Techniques in Industry.
syn. een · eve · even · evening · eventide · eveningtide · eveningtime · evetime · forenight · undern · vesper · vespertide
ant. morning