evening
/ˈiv.nɪŋ/ noun A1- The time of day between afternoon and night. · Toward evening, there was heavy rain.· I met my wife on a summer's evening in 1999.
- 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.
- A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something. · It was the evening of the Roman Empire.
- A party or gathering held in the evening.
Plural evenings
From the library
The latest tenants of the Manor House had, however, with characteristic energy, set this right, and the drawbridge was not only capable of being raised, but actually was raised every evening and lowered every morning.
“Well, it was evening; but I mind that the lamp was turned on my face.”
“I shall detain you until this evening in the Palais de Justice.
The painful catastrophe he had just witnessed appeared effectually to have rent away the veil which the intoxication of the evening before had raised between himself and his memory.
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